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continentalism
[ kon-tn-en-tl-iz-uhm ]
noun
- an attitude, expression, etc., characteristic of a continent, especially of Europe.
- an attitude or policy of favoritism or partiality to a continent:
American continentalism.
- the belief or doctrine that the U.S. and Canada should merge into a North American nation, especially for mutual economic benefit.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of continentalism1
Example Sentences
The group’s views are based on an ideology called “continentalism†espoused by the anti-Western Russian political scientist, Alexander Dugin.
Buell shows that though the Good Neighbor policy and U. S. pledges to Canada may seem simple continentalism in the Beard sense, they are actually world commitments in the modern world at war.
Canada owes its prosperity in great part to American investment, but "creeping continentalism" � as some Canadians sneeringly call their country's close economic ties with the U.S. � is for many a matter of national pride and politics.
Most of these comedies had in common the impact of Continentalism on the stolid conservatism of Old England.
It was the old bogey of continentalism in a new setting, and it took Mackenzie King twelve pages of Hansard to make his defence in the House.
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