regional bias
Place-based favoritism shown
Regional bias is a tendency to favor or unfairly judge based on geographic origin or location.
It appears in hiring practices, media coverage, academic research, and everyday assumptions: The study showed regional bias in how news outlets covered rural communities.
Someone with regional bias might dismiss ideas from certain areas or assume competence based on accent or hometown: Her regional bias against the South colored her expectations of the candidate.
- localismPreference for nearby things
- provincialismNarrow regional mindset
- parochialismExcessive local focus
- small town valuesTraditional community-minded ethics
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
prejudice · favoritism · hometown · accent · dialect · outsider · insider · tribalism · nationalism · coastal · coastal elite · East Coast · West Coast · red state · blue state · out of touch · heartland · flyover
- biaseshalo effect, horn effect
- language biaslanguage shaming, language snobbery, prescriptivism, linguistic purism, language policing
- biasprejudice, racism, bigotry, sexism, ageism
- legal biasconflict of interest
- narrow-mindednessnarrow-mindedness, narrowness, close-mindedness, closed-mindedness, close-minded
regional biascosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
universalism · global perspective · internationalism · worldliness · broad-mindedness
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