| 词汇 | parochialism |
| 释义 | parochialism noun[ U ] formaldisapprovinguk /pəˈrəʊ.ki.ə.lɪ.zəm/ us /pəˈroʊ.ki.ə.lɪ.zəm/ the quality of showing interest only in a narrow range of matters, especially those that directly affect yourself, your town, or your country: 狭隘主义 political parochialism政治狭隘主义 The system tries to avoid parochialism and local political bias.该系统试图避免狭隘主义和地方政治偏向。 See parochial At times, she has been accused of parochialism. For communities across the Commonwealth to prosper, we must put aside parochialism. We try to help students overcome parochialism by acquainting them with values, customs and institutions that differ from their own. Narrow-minded be set in your waysidiom be wearing blindersidiom be wearing blinkersidiom blinker blinkered closed-minded intolerantly myopia myopic myopically narrow-minded narrow-mindedly narrow-mindedness prissy provinciality provincially prude prudish unreconstructed unthinking Examples of parochialismparochialism A justification responsive to the parochialism objection is nowhere to be found in the texts of the conventions that list putative human rights. My focus is on only one important aspect of the problem of justification: providing a plausible answer to the parochialism objection. He believed that empire was "an invaluable antidote to the parochialism that is the bane of domestic politics and the insularity that hampers smaller states". There are two distinct lines of response to this version of the parochialism objection. Instead, it is an attempt to begin the process of justification in a way that is responsive to the parochialism objection. I show that these institutions already include a variety of measures for reducing the risk of parochialism. If principlism is to function internationally, it must be reconceptualized to shed its parochialism. So the existence of human-rights-friendly ideas or values in wide range of religious or cultural traditions does not rebut the parochialism objection. To determine whether this version of the parochialism objection is cogent, it is necessary to do two things. Consequently, parastates shunned electoral politics because of its domination by corrupt demagogues and condemned legislatures for their parochialism. But municipal control opens the door to cronyism and parochialism, as it did before. He maintains that comparative frameworks reduce parochialism by eliciting variations and alternatives that allow generalizations and arguments to be tested (75). I can illustrate this point from a newly written section which deals with bias and parochialism. On occasion, this parochialism hardens into a truculent xenophobia. The transcultural scope of human rights discourse can, however, dissipate problems of moral parochialism. See all examples of parochialism These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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