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the insult capitals invented so they wouldn't have to think about anywhere else.
means narrow in outlook or unsophisticated because shaped by a limited, local perspective, often used to describe someone or something outside a cultural center.
from from latin provincia, a territory governed by rome but not rome itself — the word has carried a whiff of second-class citizenship since the empire started ranking its own real estate.
original meaningjust meant belonging to a roman province, no insult
same rootgives us province, provincialism, and provincetown
reversaloften used by small places to mock pretentious cities too