Author: Frank Jacobs / Source: Big Think
- Survey by Pew Research Center shows great variation in chauvinism across Europe
- Eight most chauvinist countries are in the east, and include Russia
- British much more likely than French (and slightly more likely than Germans) to say their culture is ‘superior’ to others
Do you think your culture is superior to that of people elsewhere? Across Europe, that question is answered with a remarkable degree of variation.
Russia, the Balkans and the Caucasus are hotbeds of chauvinism in Europe.
Hotbeds of chauvinisim
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Greek protesters brandishing the national flag
In 8 of the 33 countries recently surveyed by the Pew Research Center, at least two thirds of the respondents say ‘yes’.
All eight are in Eastern Europe.- Greece (89%)
- Georgia (85%)
- Armenia (84%)
- Russia (69%)
- Bulgaria (69%)
- Bosnia (68%)
- Romania (66%)
- Serbia (65%)
Cultural chauvinism is about equally strong in a string of Balkan countries (Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania) and Russia. Caucasian neighbours Georgia and Armenia take it up a notch to well over 80%, but nobody touches the Greeks – nine out of ten…
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