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to deprovincialize

to deprovincialize

9.9
To make someone more open-minded by showing them other cultures
  • verb
  • /ˌdiːprəˈvɪnʃəˌlaɪz/
  • Formal
translation icon : desprovincializar
  • Studying abroad can really help to deprovincialize students by exposing them to different cultures and ideas.

Examples

  • Their scholarship helped to deprovincialize both its practitioners and many Americans, influencing how they came to see their own and other cultures.

    Academic text (1993)

  • An American colleague concurred: "We need to deprovincialize American Studies and its notion that America is unique among the nations," historian Pedro Castillo stated at that same meeting.

    Academic text (1993)

  • And though Documenta is much too sprawling to go anywhere, he managed to deprovincialize it by creating preliminary "platforms" (let the metaphor stand as political) in locales far from Kassel, the exhibition itself being the fifth and final platform.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The workshop aimed to deprovincialize the participants' views by introducing them to diverse perspectives on global issues.

  • Traveling extensively can deprovincialize a person's mindset, allowing them to appreciate the richness of various cultures.

Synonyms

to educate
vsto deprovincialize
118 2.9

To teach someone to notice and enjoy good art, food, or style

uses cultural exposure to broaden outlook rather than formal instruction
to acculturate
vsto deprovincialize
  • Specialized
1 8.2

Learn and use the customs and ways of another group

makes people more open by exposure without necessarily adopting those traits

How Open-Minded

to deprovincialize
  • Formal
9.9
to broaden
92 3.9
to introduce
520 2.1

Surface Forms

deprovincialize infinitive
deprovincialized past
deprovincialized past participle
deprovincializing present participle
deprovincializes third person singular

Morphology

deprovincialize = provincialize (semi-transparent) = de + provinc + ial + ize

From the immediate base 'provincialize', the prefix 'de-' clearly gives the reversing sense 'make less provincial'.

Etymology

The word deprovincialize is made from de- ('remove') and provincial, from province which means 'a small region' and grew to mean 'narrow-minded'. So, to deprovincialize someone is to 'remove' narrow local views and open them to wider ideas and cultures.