It is a hard truth: you will always face those pockets of small-mindedness, no matter where you go.

确凿的事实是：不论你去哪儿，都要面对这些心胸狭窄的人。

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All this by a single artist, who enjoys confronting the small-mindedness of organised society.

他喜欢通过这些方式与狭隘的组织化社会进行对抗。

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Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.

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Perhaps Mr Arroyo's pamphlet should be read as a satire of Spanish inferiority and small-mindedness faced by the next-door riches of France with its art, its food, its countryside and its writing.

ECONOMIST: If in doubt, bash the French