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You can’t open an issue of The Economist without seeing Trump or some dictator being accused of jingoism.
by Grustaf 6y ago
You can’t open an issue of The Economist without seeing Trump or some dictator being accused of jingoism.
- GordonS 6y agoAnd how common is it to be a reader of The Economist?
- usr1106 6y agoI have used English as my daily working language in software development for over 20 years and had never heard it before. Well, we don't discuss a lot of politics in international teams, that's a taboo topic especially when working with Chinese colleagues. And for Trump we have only one word, that I don't want to repeat here.
- Grustaf 6y agoThe English needed to discuss software is pretty limited.
- Grustaf 6y agoExtremely common, it’s the standard magazine for economics and politics.
- GordonS 6y agoMaybe, but it's not "extremely common" to read any high-brow publications on politics and economics.
- chris_wot 6y agoWell, it’s used frequently in counties that used to be part of the British Empire it appears. Australians use it all the time.
- GordonS 6y agoI'm a Brit, pushing 40. I'm educated to degree level (1st class, FWIW), and very well read (including the venerable Pratchett, though I don't think I have read Jingo yet). I think I heard the word "jingoism" for the first time ever around 5 years ago. It is not a word one hears very often, and it certainly didn't come to mind from "JingOS". If you often read high-brow political publications you may come across "jingoism" on the daily, but that is obviously not a huge cross-section of the public. TBH, kind of bizarre how strongly this jingoism thing is being pushed in this thread.