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chauvinism
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In his book, "The Great Turning," Korten asserts that corporate power is a contemporary manifestation of what he calls "Empire" - the organization of society by hierarchies grounded in violent chauvinisms of race, gender, religion, nationality, language and class.
The purpose of this notion is to create cosmopolitan tolerance, where particular national chauvinisms had existed.
Clumsy copies of famous high-European designs, they could be seen as a critique of old Western chauvinisms and as an amusing comment on the problems of translation between cultures.
 
 
 
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