What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to? (James Richardson)

What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?

James Richardson

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