insularism

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Noun
  • Advertisement Advertisement Today, in popular narratives of the civil rights movement, journalists are remembered as heroes who braved the South’s violent parochialism to shine a light on those confronting Jim Crow segregation.
    Made by History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Harvard's own antisemitism and Islamophobia task forces found widespread fear and bigotry at the university in reports released in late April.
    Nate Raymond, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • Augustin denied that bigotry was a motive for the attack.
    Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The link between chemical intolerance and mast cell activation was prescient (though scientists like Cem Akin are waiting for empirical data to prove the connection).
    Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
  • Dairy products: Dairy can upset the gut, especially in people with lactose intolerance.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • For example, a person with strong justice, accountability, courage, drive, and integrity will need strength in dimensions such as temperance, humility, and humanity to exercise the necessary judgment, avoiding self-righteousness and dogmatism.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • The Catholic Counter-Reformation, which took shape at the Council of Trent from 1545-1563, reinforced dogmatism in its effort to rebuke reformers.
    Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Whatever your own reaction, the open-ended nature of Serra’s approach flies in the face of what people have been conditioned to expect from today’s non-fiction cinema, much of which exists to challenge the audience for their provincialism while flattering them for their empathy.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 June 2025
  • Liebling took this characteristic, the public shows of modesty (and less public tribalism), as good old fashioned Midwestern provincialism.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
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“Insularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insularism. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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