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What does chauvinism mean?

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Noun
  1. (pejorative) Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
  2. (pejorative) Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
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Italy's long-standing tradition of male chauvinism has been delivered a bitter blow with the opening of the country's first women-only beach.
Certainly male chauvinism combined with existing social and intellectual norms contributed to this result.
But when nostalgia for the old Russian Empire crept in, it became a kind of Great Russian chauvinism.
They have had to face accusations of racism, Eurocentrism, neocolonialism, grave-robbing, and male chauvinism.
I laugh at my 76-year-old mother's anti-Catholic prejudices, because I can see the naked chauvinism behind them for what it is.
Our women have come a long way in their struggle for liberation from the shackles of feudalism, slavery, colonialism and male chauvinism.

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