Do you restrict your personal interests, on any subject, to the narrow confines of the area in which you live? Or are you open and accommodating to the tastes and sentiments of others who reside from outside your locale or jurisdiction?
How parochial are you?
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What does parochial mean?
3 : confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parochial
Never use elaborate code on a porn board, bigoldowls!
To answer your question: I consider myself a globalist and internationalist. Actually, my "parish" is so boring that I happily indulge in any outside input I can get.
Thank you!3 : confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parochial
Never use elaborate code on a porn board, bigoldowls!
To answer your question: I consider myself a globalist and internationalist. Actually, my "parish" is so boring that I happily indulge in any outside input I can get.
I live in a tiny mining settlement on the side of a very wet and drab looking valley! I actively embrace anything from the outside world!
I think people who are truly parochial don't see themselves as such, and those who know the word and its connotations are probably not inclined to admit it if they are.
But no, I'm not really parochial at all... I'm great.
But no, I'm not really parochial at all... I'm great.
Never use elaborate code on a porn board, bigoldowls!
Elaborate code? :helpme:
Jagger69
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Not parochial at all. I love experiencing different cultures and regions. Fortunately, due to the fact that I spend a great deal of my time traveling on business and the area of the country in which I reside is extremely diverse from and ethnic and cultural standpoint, it is really easy for me to have this attitude.
3 : confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parochial
Never use elaborate code on a porn board, bigoldowls!
To answer your question: I consider myself a globalist and internationalist. Actually, my "parish" is so boring that I happily indulge in any outside input I can get.
Quiet you are exposing our one world govt conspiracy.
Next you will be diviluging the secret handshake.:nono:But seriously I am fairly provincal on a personal level in tastes and interests but on what I would consider important issues I would also like DVC consider myself a globalist/internationalist.The world as they say has grown smaller and now we are all much more connected and effected by each other.What made sense possibly a hundred years ago is now obsolete.IMO after WW2 was when the old order started to show its limitations,there is no longer any possibility of being isolated or self sufficent.
Not at all, I don't think. I've lived in many different countries in my time, so my concerns have often been focussed on the affairs of areas which are apparently completely unrelated to the land or region of my birth. Collectively, all the disparate concerns and dissimilar experiences probably have had an effect on the way I think.
dick van cock
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Am I the FreeOnes free online dictionary?
[Linguists make ...] the distinction between elaborate code, which is seen as a criterion for "upper-class", and the restricted code, which is associated with "lower classes. (wikipedia entry on "social class")
youwanttoshagme
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Why? What do you know?
Would it be correct in assuming, based on anecdotal evidence, that Americans are more parochial that Europeans?
I think parochialism (there is an "ism" for this, no?) can be more readily associated with socioeconomic class than it can be simply with citizenship.
I've met and known some pretty parochial people in both places...
