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Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". In practice, it refers to the advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safe guard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
The term originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude towards Russia in the 1870s. During the 19th century in the United States, journalists called this attitude spread-eagleism. "Jingoism" did not enter the U.S. vernacular until near the turn of the 20th century. This nationalistic belligerence was intensified by the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbour that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. |
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A bit more detail:
This word is still as popular as it ever was, but few writers who use it to describe a bellicose chauvinistic attitude to foreigners know it’s from a magician’s catchphrase via a music-hall song. Jingo dates from the late seventeenth century and is first recorded in the forms by jingo! or high jingo! as a bit of conjuror’s patter when some item was revealed as though by magic (the opposite of hey presto!, used when something was ordered to disappear). By jingo! was also used around this time as another of the many euphemisms for by God or by Jesus and so became an interjection to show one’s surprise or to give emphasis. It turns up, as one example out of a very large number, in Fanny Burney’s Evelina of 1778: “ ‘If I live an hundred springs,’ answered he, ‘I shall never forget it; by Jingo, it has served me for a most excellent good joke ever since.’ ” Exactly a century later, during the Russo-Turkish war, Russia was threatening to capture Constantinople. George Hunt, a prolific writer of music-hall songs, composed a topical song for the actor and singer Gilbert Macdermot (real name Gilbert Farrell), who was then performing regularly at the London Pavilion under the stage name of The Great Macdermot. The song immediately became a hit, especially the first four lines of its refrain: We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do... We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too! This was taken up by what we would now call the hawks of the London public, who had for some time been after the Russians’ blood. The Daily News first called them jingoes in its issue of 11 March 1878; a subscriber wrote to the paper two days later about “The Jingoes — the new type of music-hall patriots who sing the Jingo song.” The prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, had by then ordered the Mediterranean fleet to the defence of Constantinople and indeed the war had already ended on 3 March through the signing of the treaty of San Stefano between Russia and Turkey. Jingo itself didn’t last very long, but the derived nouns jingoist and jingoism survived to become fixed parts of the language. “http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-jin1.htm” |
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The word came immediately to mind, about September 12th, 2001.
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Webster says:
Main Entry: jin·go·ism Pronunciation: \ˈjiŋ-(ˌ)gō-ˌi-zəm\ Function: noun Date: 1878 : extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy — jin·go·ist \-ist\ noun or adjective — jin·go·is·tic \ˌjiŋ-gō-ˈis-tik\ adjective — jin·go·is·ti·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb Perhaps it simply means, in these times, that Citizens see the need for some level of Nationalistic economic and social protection against less enlightened, more Nationalistic economic and political concerns as evidenced by many Nations overseas... Perhaps it may simply be defined as National Survival amongst predatory and opportunistic, Nationalistic and antagonistic Religious adversaries... All bets are off...our economic and political systems are on the auction block... |
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Spoken like a true jingoist. You're to be commended for your insight. |
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Lead Moderator MILITARY HISTORY Freedom!!! ------------------- Proud Member Derelict Veterans Group ------------------- |
Facts remain Bill... Our Constitution remains...our Bill of Rights remains... Treasures beyond comprehension for many... As scarcity of resources intrudes...and intensifies...pressure will mount to discard these basic truths...that We remain as equals... YET...respect borders...and cultural differences... The basic fallacy of Men...and the underlying cause of all Wars... Borders and cultural integrity and diversity... add strength to the efforts of Men... Cultural assimilation begets War... Principles, it seems, only our Founding Fathers truly understood... IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. |
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Wow, a jingoist AND a poet.
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Nutty and misguided. Not to be confused with patriotism, which is caring so much about one's country that he or she has a desire to improve it, a jingoist feels that his or her country is perfect, and all other countries need to realize, by force if necessary, that fact. |
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Hence the use of lapel-pins, bumper-stickers, and ribbons! It is not our belief or disbelief that can make or unmake the fact. ~ Thomas Paine |
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Don't forget "Hide behind religion; since HE favors America over all others." |
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