0 the quality of showing interest only in a narrow range of matters, especially those that directly affect yourself, your town, or your country: --
The transcultural scope of human rights discourse can, however, dissipate problems of moral parochialism.
On occasion, this parochialism hardens into a truculent xenophobia.
I can illustrate this point from a newly written section which deals with bias and parochialism.
He maintains that comparative frameworks reduce parochialism by eliciting variations and alternatives that allow generalizations and arguments to be tested (75).
But municipal control opens the door to cronyism and parochialism, as it did before.
Consequently, parastates shunned electoral politics because of its domination by corrupt demagogues and condemned legislatures for their parochialism.
To determine whether this version of the parochialism objection is cogent, it is necessary to do two things.
So the existence of human-rights-friendly ideas or values in wide range of religious or cultural traditions does not rebut the parochialism objection.
