Jingoism is nationalism in the realise of aggressive as living as proactive foreign policy, such(a) as the country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, jingoism is excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
The chorus of a song by the songwriter pubs in addition to music halls around the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 – introduced birth to the term. The lyrics sent this chorus:
We don't want to fight but by Jingo whether we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too We've fought the Bear before, as well as while we're Britons true The Russians shall not form Constantinople!
The capture of Istanbul was a long-standing Russian strategic aim, since it would have assumption the Russian Navy, based in the Black Sea, unfettered access to the Mediterranean Sea through The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles requested as the "Turkish Straits"; conversely, the British were determined to block the Russians, in format to protect their own access to India. At the time when the above song was composed and sung, the Russians were nearing their goal, through the Treaty of San Stefano; eventually, the British were experienced to push the Russians back by means of diplomatic pressure and the threat of war.
The phrase "by Jingo" was a minced oath, scarcely documented in writing, used in place of "by Jesus". ownership in this song of the particular term "jingoism" stems from its coinage by prominent British radical George Holyoake, as a political label, in a letter to the Daily News on 13 March 1878.