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If — oh, happy dream — all the old ethnic rivalries could be set aside, most Canadians would acknowledge that Québec is not only the “original” Canada of the first European settlement, but also the province that most comprehensively encompasses within its borders the world’s image of this huge country.
The Guelf-Ghibelline conflict became a pretext for settling family feuds (such as the one typified in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) or communal rivalries, from which Genoa and Florence emerged stronger than ever.
But the Austrians defeated a rebel government of “united Italian provinces,” weakened by regional rivalries and conflicting personal ambitions.
National unity was again sabotaged by provincial rivalries.
While occasional ethnic tensions arise, they rarely flare into the kind of violence such rivalries foster elsewhere in the world.