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chauvinismUnreasonable and exaggerated patriotism and pride in one's own country, with a corresponding contempt for other nations. In the mid-20th century the expression male chauvinism was coined to mean an assumed superiority of the male sex over the female.
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Take the rodeo scene, where Borat is invited to sing his national anthem, which turns out to echo American chauvinism, circa 2003: Kazakhstan is number one What is most distressing about Conservation is Our Government Now is not the author's revelations of cultural chauvinism and conflicts, with only limited assertions of local priorities. Hence, the elite city-building agenda was ultimately limited by commercial-civic leaders' own racism and class chauvinism. |
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