What is British jingoism?
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The term jingoism refers to a nation's aggressive foreign policy which has been propelled by public opinion. The word was coined in the 1870s, during an episode in Britain's perennial conflicts with the Russian Empire, when a popular music hall song urging military action contained the phrase, “by Jingo.”
Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests.[1] Colloquially, jingoism is excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme type of nationalism.
The term originated in the United Kingdom, expressing a pugnacious attitude toward Russia in the 1870s, and it appeared in the American press by 1893.