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Extreme nationalism , the belief in thesuperiority of one'snation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.
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Examples
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China's growing economic strength, military might and hypernationalism at home are spurring actions abroad that bring it into increasingly dangerous conflicts.
Asia's Great Naval Rivalry Mohan Malik 2011
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Yes, of course, that type of thinking makes no rational sense, but the Middle East puzzle, it's clear, operates mainly out of emotion, hypernationalism, overweening ethnic and religious pride, the ongoing rituals of conflict, and thoroughgoing contempt and fear of The Other.
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Both in his writings and in our talks in Bonn, Stern helped me understand how Hitler pulled off the considerable feat of bestowing on German hypernationalism and totalitarianism a deterministic mandate to expand boundlessly.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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It rejected internationalism in favor of hypernationalism.
In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two." Ann Althouse 2008
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The only reason white feminists are even aware of the interlocking systems of oppression of the nation/state, the sexism of hypernationalism, the connection of over there to over here–is because of us whiny brown women who do nothing but sit and complain about white women all day aka grassroots basebuilding and organizing.
Bikinis and Burkas 2006
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There is apparently a huge list of potential catastrophes awaiting China: financial bubbles, an ageing population, regional disparities, growing inequality, ethnic and religious disaffection, environmental collapse, resource scarcities, bad governance, hypernationalism, unchecked populism and so on.
The Times of India 2010
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I guess that other areas of the US are following Arizona's lead in codifying hypernationalism? it's strange the things these people think are somehow solutions fishwax
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There is apparently a huge list of potential catastrophes awaiting China: financial bubbles, an ageing population, regional disparities, growing inequality, ethnic and religious disaffection, environmental collapse, resource scarcities, bad governance, hypernationalism, unchecked populism and so on.
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Israel had to integrate Jews from all over much of the world so it developed the same sort of hypernationalism and militarism historically.
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This hypernationalism is destroying Israel, as many of the Israli powerful have stated publically, including the gonif Olmert.
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