provincialism

It encourages provincialism, a focus on the local rather than national interest.

No speechifying, no debates, no scolding of American provincialism, just a welcome view of what the rest of the world is reading.

But insularity or provincialism in the literary community, he said, is nothing to sneer at.

Suchet, an ardent student of human nature, was quick to appreciate how to turn to his use this provincialism.

This shows the worst kind of provincialism and a vulgar spirit.

Upon the embers of provincialism he heaped the inflammable brush-wood of excited rhetoric.

Travelling takes away provincialism because it broadens the outlook.

Britain, notwithstanding her series of illustrious names, had not yet quite shaken off an air of provincialism.