Gallup calls this condition
parochialism.
Parochialism develops when a group views the world strictly through the lens of its functional goals, and it judges the relative importance of other activities by the way they affect the group's objectives.
Mr Cook is calling for the area to turn away from division and
parochialism and recognise the time has come for a City of Teesside.
We notice
parochialism is alive and well at the South Wales Echo (Pass the remote - Stairway to Heaven - A Machynlleth Story, TV Page, Monday).
Coun Jeff Green may think the Wirral has more affinity with Cheshire than Liverpool but the consequences of this kind of
parochialism are damaging.
And why limit this
parochialism to industrial artefacts?
The contrast with the narrow ,
parochialism of the villagers is very well-taken.
One individual, perhaps recovering from a meeting earlier that day, was fed up with the "stupidity,
parochialism, and lack of focus of some people."
Saint Etienne ("London Belongs to Me") Britpop's dub-hazy pinnacle, four years before a pipe dream was realized as a ghastly hegemony of nostalgia and
parochialism.
To counter beggar-thy-neighbor suburban municipal
parochialism, Downs would vest development regulations and other relevant local powers in state and regional agencies.
In trade, however, there is no Saddam Hussein to scare off
parochialism. The French and Germans deadlocked the talks by stubbornly defending their outrageously cynical farm-subsidy system.
It was a powerful statement against past paternalism and
parochialism, a statement regarding women's issues, and a protest of the instability of the health care environment.
The President stressed that the teachers needed to play their part in controlling sectarian differences and
parochialism in educational institutions.
He added: "In Wales we suffer from
parochialism and a tendency to criticise what is being done.
Topics discussed include
parochialism and the anthropology of education in the Anglophone world, educational processes in Mexico, ethnographies of education in the French speaking world, welfare states and education, schooling in Japan, and the ethnography of education in Israel.
I do not believe this is mere
parochialism or self interest on behalf of the Newcastle Hospitals.
