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Could someone please explain the difference between parochialism and provincialism?
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I just looked both up:
Parochial seems to have the first meaning of "of or concerning a parish."
Both seem to share the meaning of being local, narrow, restricted in scope, limited....
Provincialism has the above as its primary meaning; as a secondary meaning it has "allegiance to or concern for one's province rather than one's country."
So perhaps the latter has a slightly broader scope of narrow-mindedness than the former...?! (assuming that provinces tend to be larger than parishes)
instant edit: nearly forgot to add that "parochial," to me, always seems to have a more patronising air than "provincial." The former is arrogantly ignorant/narrow; the latter is innocently so. Summink like that.
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And there may be hundreds of parishes in a province. So if being provincial is being small time, being parochial is being microscopic.
parochial adj. 5ME parochiele < OFr parochial < ML(Ec) parochialis < LL(Ec) parochia: see PARISH6 1 of or in a parish or parishes 2 restricted to a small area or scope; narrow; limited; provincial !a parochial outlook" pa[ro4chi[al[ism# n. pa[ro4chi[al[ist n. pa[ro4chi[al[ly adv.
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Parochial seems to be the expression of interest only in strictly local events. A lot of people here in England are extremely parochial and regard events that occur even a hundred miles away as being "foreign".
Being provincial is, to me, being a country bumpkin, a chawbacon, unsophisticated.
- Pfranz
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I like the term chawbacon...images of a couple of chawbacons sittin' around and chewin' the fat.
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images of a couple of chawbacons sittin' around and chewin' the fat
Do you suppose the Star Wars writers had this in mind when they named Han Solo's faithful Wookie companion?
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