parochialism
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9.6
- noun
- /pəˈroʊkiəlɪzəm/
- According to the conventional wisdom, parochialism encourages members of Congress to add unwanted programs to the defense budget.
- intellectual parochialism
- parochialism leads to
- parochialism is often
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Examples
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Most scientists happily share information, try hard to communicate with one another, and deplore the parochialisms that stymie contact.
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She expressed concern about the parochialism of local politics, which focused only on immediate community issues.
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Without question, in other communities and in other states, parochialism exists.
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In part, this is simply parochialism, the application of merely local standards to other and different circumstances.
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On one level, the end of history debate points to the occasional parochialism of the American academy.
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What I meant by superficial was that it could just simply be our parochialism as a community.
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The federal courts have been criticized for parochialism in their handling of the first two issues, but not of the latter two.
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The revised democratic theory does not view parochialism as unavoidable in African politics.
Academic text (1993) -
University presidents happily welcome the freshman class by presenting higher education as a challenge to parochialism.
Academic text (1999) -
In both lines of scholarship, the common assumption has been that this parochialism stems from judges and their provincial views.
Academic text (2017)
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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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 way of thinking that only cares about local matters and ignores wider issues
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9.0
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
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parochialism comes from the word parochial, which long ago meant 'parish' or the area served by a 'local church' and is the same root as parish. So parochialism is a narrow, local way of thinking, caring mainly about small community concerns rather than the wider world.