"Shintoism is a purely Japanese religion, the origins of which are buried in the hazy mists of ancient Japanese history. It is one of the world’s oldest religions. The Japanese people have a fierce love for their land and believe that the Japanese islands were the very first divine creation. In fact, Shintoism teaches that no other land is divine, making Japan unique in the world. Not surprisingly, Shintoism is not popular outside of Japan.
The two fundamental Shinto doctrines are that Japan is the country of the gods and her people are the descendants of gods. This concept of the divine descent of the Japanese people, as well as the divine origin of the land, has given rise to a conviction of superiority over other countries and peoples"
https://www.gotquestions.org/Shintoism.html
"There is a sense in which the traditional view of ancient Chinese history is correct (and perhaps it originated ultimately in the first appearance of dynastic civilization): those on the fringes and outside this esoteric event were "barbarians" in that they did not enjoy (or suffer from) the fruit of civilization until they were brought into close contact with it by an imperial expansion of the civilization itself."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian#Cultural_and_racial_barbarianism
"The Aztecs believed they were the "chosen people" and that the end of the world could only be avoided by "feeding" the sun human blood and flesh." "Aztecs felt they were the "chosen people" of Huitzilopochtli"
http://www.carnaval.com/dead/aztecmyth.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/azteculture.html
"Just an example, but it can be the reason why some of us are so in bondage to sin. Sin is really not good for black people. The consequences are compounded each time. As a chosen people, we’re held to a higher standard. -http://
www.letspleasegod.com/2015/09/black-people-israelites-bible/
If you look, those were two (among many) sources that mentioned the Aztecs seeing themselves as chosen people. Also there have been Japanese who believe they are chosen people. Now what do the Japanese people and the Aztecs have in common? They are both famous for imperialism. Before the Spanish came to Mexico, the Aztecs were dominating and oppressing the other tribes. The Japanese are hated by many people because they are seen as imperialists. I'm not anti-Japanese and I'm not trying to justify that attitude- I'm just saying it's out there and there are historical reasons why that is the case.
The thing I want to emphasize to everybody is this: every imperialistic group of people, every people were the leaders are colonizers NEED some sort of philosophy, some sort of ideology that explains WHY they are the chosen people:
For George Bush, the ideology was (so-called) "Freedom and Democracy".
For Muslim imperialists, the Quran.
For Christian imperialists, the Bible.
There is a whole category of "chosen people" ideologies and such ideologies form part of the ideological arsenal of imperialism.