parochial attitude
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- noun
- /pəˈroʊkiəl ˈætɪtjud/
- The organization's parochial attitude prevents it from engaging with diverse perspectives that could lead to innovation.
Examples
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Many people criticized him for his parochial attitude, believing that he was too focused on local issues instead of global problems.
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And you'd be right, but that's a narrow parochial attitude from where you were raised.
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Her parochial attitude towards education limited her understanding of different cultures and ideas.
Synonyms
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Not willing to accept opinions or ways that are different from your own
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Being separate from other places and having a narrow view of the world
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Strong loyalty to one's own community and its interests
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A narrow way of thinking that focuses on local issues
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A strong focus on local customs and a dislike of outside ideas
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Unwillingness to accept ideas or people different from your own
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A focus on one person, group, or interest instead of the whole
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A strong loyalty to one region that harms the rest of the country
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A narrow view of the world that cares only about local matters
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A narrow way of thinking that focuses only on a small group
A way of thinking that keeps a country apart and closed to outside ideas
Antonyms
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'parochial' (narrow, locally focused) modifies 'attitude' (way of thinking), yielding a narrow-minded outlook. This simple adjective + noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Parochial attitude may come from the old word for a local church area, a parish. People who only cared about their small parish could not see beyond local things, so 'parochial' came to mean 'narrow' or 'limited', and parochial attitude means having a small, local way of thinking.