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• n  a lack of sophistication
• n  a partiality for some particular place

• Toynbee felt that there was a kind of intellectual provincialism, too, in what he called "the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another,' " for he himself had "a .
• Says Joseph Duffey, director of the American Association of University Professors: "The anti-Carter sentiment is the cultural provincialism of a group that finds it hard to .
• He wore his provincialism as proudly as he did his loud sports shirts, which, to much of the world, represent the American tourist.

• sectionalism
• localism

News & Articles

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• Pryor and the politics of provincialism
  Provincialism — that sense that Arkansans have limited use for the world beyond Arkansas's borders — has been a defining characteristic of the state's politics and society for its entire existence. by Jay Barth Provincialism — that sense that Arkansans have limited use for the world beyond Arkansas's borders — has been a defining characteristic of the state's politics and society for its entire ...
  June 12, 2013 - Arkansas Times

Quotes

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• Shahbaz Sharif in Kansas City Star
  The federal interior has tried to provoke provincialism by talking about the Punjabi Taliban at a time when unity is needed,Shahbaz Sharif said in a statement Wednesday.
• Martin Bernheimer in Los Angeles Times
  He built up the Oakland Symphony from a position of modest provincialism to one of international respect,critic Martin Bernheimer wrote of Samuel in a 1970 profile for The Times.
• Sonia Gandhi in Business Standard
  Gandhi said that there have been violent manifestations of "bigoted provincialism, deliberately engineered for narrow political gains."