chauvinism
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Brie Larson produces and stars in “Lessons in Chemistry” as a scientist who, faced with the chauvinism of 1950s society, channels her passions into a TV cooking show that stirs science into her recipes.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023
“The current flourishing of novels by women and cultural minorities,” he concedes, “shows the chauvinism of judging the vitality of American letters by the fortunes of the traditional social novel.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
I learned that I have no taste for racial chauvinism; such beliefs are the mind killer.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2023
Vince recognizes some of the difficulties, noting that for her plan to succeed, humans would first have to abandon racism, chauvinism and nationalism and become citizens of the world.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
There was an element of chauvinism in this—the French supported their own champion and rejected the ideas of the perfidious Englishman, while Newton was, of course, very much a prophet honoured in his own country.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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