ABSTRACT
Claims of ethno-national superiority are ordinarily associated with Nazis and racists. While those are the most repugnant and consequential, the assumption and expression of group superiority is globally commonplace. What is here referred to as cultural chauvinism manifests in everyday conversations, political and diplomatic rhetoric, and press reporting. From Western claims to exceptionalism in political ethos to African, Asian, and Muslim assertion of superiority in social values, cultural chauvinism cuts across regions and economic status.
