Sentences with phrase «of ethnic chauvinism»

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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If Christianity wants to avoid the charge of outright obscurantism or willful fanaticism, all four claimed, it must justify itself before the bar of nature; and if revelation has any meaning whatever, besides being otherwise an expression of ethnic or religious chauvinism, it must be seen as being merely a pedagogical repetition for the peasant mind «set of the Book of Nature.

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 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.