ETHNIES

In Western Europe, with the creation of a "United Europe", many people think that a mosaic of local or minoritory historical identities will develop, more and more distinctive and imposing: local and minoritary compared to Europe and to the states and other politico-administrative groups that compose il actually or that will compose it tomorrow. And the movements of ethnic revendication ofien show the wish or the hope of seeing the local identities liberated from their constraints and destined to play new and important roles, thanks to the new equilibram of United Europe. Western nationalisms and patriotisms are weakened because, from now on, the world seems to be a more and more unique group, a whole, and that goes for humanity living there too, although the oekoumene is devided into rich and dominating countries on one side, and poor and dominated countries on the other side, therefore redefining two original macro-identities on a planetary scale: the rich and the poor. And it is of smaR importance that this should ofien reproduce itself on a smaller scale in the West and inside the territory of a unique state.