provincialism

provincialism
provincialism (n.) 1820 in the political sense, "local attachment as opposed to national unity," from PROVINCIAL (Cf. provincial) + -ISM (Cf. -ism). Meaning "manners or modes of a certain province or of provinces generally" (as opposed to the big city or capital) is from 1836. Sense of "a local word or usage or expression" is from 1770.
PROVINCIALISM consists in:
(a) An ignorance of the manners, customs and nature of people living outside one's own village, parish, or nation.
(b) A desire to coerce others into uniformity.
[Ezra Pound, "Provincialism the Enemy," 1917]

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