Word: disten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ethnically, the Continent is a plexus of unassimilated minorities. Western Europe alone embraces 30 different ethnic communities, ranging in size from the 20,000 Slovenes of Austria to the 4,000,000 Catalans of northeastern Spain. They are re-emerging partly because of what the Italians call disten-sione-the easing of tension-removing the kind of external dangers that justify strong central government. Another factor is the advance of modern communications, which has brought the threat of cultural homogenization much closer to many once isolated peoples. The result is that such communities have renewed their insistence on maintaining their...
| 1 |