the past two decades, we increasingly hear the notion.It is an enviable sequence occurs in the speeches of public figures, public debates and discussions about the existing problems of the state and the people.We often associate the term with an extreme form of nationalism.However, the term "chauvinist" - a somewhat broader concept.Interestingly, it comes from the surname of a person, who was a veteran of the Napoleonic army.His name was Nicolas Chauvin.This soldier is so stubbornly and fanatically defended the idea of the greatness of France Bonaparte (even after the fall of the latter), that his name was to become synonymous.Since then, the chauvinist - a man categorically supports the idea of the ultranationalist superiority of one nation over all other.Today this concept is usually used in combination with the national definitions.In the context of the Russian Federation often declare themselves Russian chauvinists.However, if this concept is considered more closely, we can see that today it extends much broader national framework.
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In today's world chauvinist - a person who really supports the idea of absolute superiority, but they can be projected on a completely different social categories.We all somehow come across the concept of machismo.It can also occur in relation to children, the elderly, the disabled, the poor and so on.All such forms are always accompanied by deliberate discrimination.
Chauvinism.Definition in biology
However, this concept is not always necessarily imply something related to violations of human rights.Takes place to be so-called discrimination species.Similarly term refers to infringement of interests of any kind in favor of another.The most striking example of this, perhaps, is the relationship of the human species from the animal world.However, in the past can hardly be transferred to the concept of natural rights, since animals do not have any consciousness, any faith.Therefore, discrimination is used here in a different sense.
Interestingly, there is an even such a thing as carbon chauvinism.It is not at all has to do with discrimination in any of its form or the application belongs to the field of kosmozoologi.Carbon chauvinist - a person claiming fundamental impossibility of the existence of any life forms based not on carbon.The fact that absolutely all known forms of life on Earth is carbon in the sense that they have this element as the fundamental basis of its own.Furthermore, we are all composed of the same materials, which are most prevalent in the universe of hydrogen, carbon, and so on.This factor is approved among many modern cosmobiology and astrophysicists popular opinion that if extraterrestrial life forms and are found, they must also be built from the same compounds.Speculation about a fundamentally different biochemistry (for example, silicon as a base), it looks rather doubtful today.
