chauvinists

Blindly loyal zealots

Chauvinists are people who believe their own group is inherently superior to others.

The word originally meant extreme nationalists—those convinced their country could do no wrong.

Now it most often appears in male chauvinist, describing men who believe in male superiority over women: The chauvinists in the office talked over their female colleagues.

The singular is chauvinist.

gender

misogynists

Those who hate women

discrimination · harassment · mansplaining · glass ceiling · objectification · double standards · workplace bias · toxic masculinity · exclusion · condescension

nationalism

jingoists

Aggressive nationalism's proponents

supremacists · zealots · isolationists · nativists · ultranationalists · militarists · expansionists · imperialists · propaganda · superiority

cultural

supremacists

Believers in group dominance

  • elitistsThose claiming superiority
  • snobsCondescending, self-important people
  • puristsStrict adherence advocates

traditionalists · ethnocentrism · Eurocentrism · cultural bias · imperialism · dismissiveness · arrogance · condescension · insularity · closed-mindedness

Categories
Opposites
gender attitudes

chauvinistsfeminists

Gender equality proponents

egalitarians · women's rights advocates · suffragettes · progressives · liberationists

national/group loyalty

chauvinistscosmopolitans

Worldly, well-traveled people

internationalists · globalists · multiculturalists · pacifists · universalists

openness and equality

chauvinistsegalitarians

Advocates for equal rights

pluralists · humanists

Phrases
Family

chauvinist, chauvinism, chauvinistic

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