Example sentences for: balkanization

How can you use “balkanization” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Glazer is right to think that even a steady diet of ethnic special pleading won't lead to Balkanization and intergroup warfare; but he's also right to wonder if he takes "too extreme an outcome ...

  • If you feel the proliferation of such questions promotes Balkanization, the decision now gives you a legal way to fight back: Just check them all .

  • The recent change in Miami by which Spanish is allowed alongside English as an official language is seen by some as a Balkanization of the cherished “melting pot”; but those holding that view who support it with the claim that the 20th-century immigrants have assimilated culturally and speak English are wrong: many speak little or no English, and most make every effort they can to retain the cultures of their respective native lands, including religious observances.

  • But people should not let all the Balkanization and technical-sounding talk scare them away.


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