parochial
puh-ROH-kee-uladjMeaning having a narrow, local outlook
Memory hook can’t see past the village OAK: par-OAK-ial. To Uncle Felix, the whole world stops at the old oak at the edge of the village; nothing beyond it interests him: his outlook is parochial.
My cousin’s parochial view was that nothing interesting ever happened outside our county.
In context The newspaper’s coverage was parochial, filling page after page with local bake sales while ignoring important events in the rest of the world.
Similar narrow-minded, provincial, small-town, insular
Opposite cosmopolitan, broad-minded, worldly
From Latin parochia, “parish,” a small local district.