0 the quality of showing interest only in a narrow range of matters, especially those that directly affect yourself, your town, or your country:
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.
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.