Sentences with phrase «ethnic chauvinism»
"Ethnic chauvinism" refers to the belief or behavior where people show excessive pride or superiority towards their own ethnic group, often at the expense of others. It involves valuing one's own ethnic background and culture above others, sometimes leading to discriminatory or prejudiced attitudes and actions towards people from different ethnic backgrounds. Full definition
In fact, to assert the opposite would itself be the worst form of ethnic chauvinism: the Bible makes it perfectly clear that there is nothing inherent in the Jews as a people or race by which they might have «merited» the election of God.
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That some ethnic advocates distinguish between ethnic chauvinism and creative ethnicity is all to their credit.
He warned about the dangers that ethnic chauvinism posed to the territorial integrity of the Russian state: «I am convinced that the attempts to preach the idea of a «national» or monoethnic Russian state contradict our thousand - year history,» he averred, «this is a shortcut to destroying the Russian people and Russian statehood, and for that matter any viable, sovereign statehood on the planet» (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2014).
A government that is serious in fighting corruption should not engage in lopsided appointments, reducing some sections of the country to second class citizens or entrenching ethnic chauvinism in its policies.»
He has to rebuild trust in Nigerians whom he has alienated with blatant ethnic chauvinism that renders his inauguration day «I belong to everybody and belong to nobody» pledge hollow.
A widely perceived ethnic chauvinism and immodesty on the part of Asantes in the assertion and projection of their culture, history, and identity in relation to others is a stereotype or sentiment that is easily mobilized and exploited politically to underwrite the NDC's identity politics and propaganda.
You have done well for the nation; those who have refused to acknowledge the good works you have done are blinded by parochial sentiments and ethnic chauvinism.