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The American War-Dog , a 1916 political cartoon by Oscar Cesare , with the dog named 'Jingo' Jingoism is extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. [ 1 ] In practice, it is a country's advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism . The term originated in Britain , expressing a pugnacious attitude towards Russia in the 1870s. "Jingoism" did not enter the American vernacular until near the end of the 19th century. This nationalistic belligerence was intensified by the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbour that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. [ citation needed ]
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