Why Italian Switzerland?

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2015

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Cambridge University Press

The title of this chapter may seem frivolous when the entire book bears the title Why Switzerland? but it has a real significance in the overall conception of the work. If the plan is to show the distinctive features of Switzerland in its history, politics, linguistic and cultural diversity, wealth, relationship to Europe and ultimately to speculate on the nature of Swiss identity, then I believe that Italian Switzerland, and especially the Republic and Canton of Ticino, the Swiss canton whose only official language is Italian, (the Italian-speaking communities in Graubünden live in a tri-lingual canton) reveals that identity better than any other. Its uniqueness as the only Italian-speaking canton and the only large Swiss community on the southern slopes of the Alps marks a real difference between it and the other cantons.

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