bicommunalism

== English == === Etymology === From bicommunal +‎ -ism. === Noun === bicommunalism (plural bicommunalisms) A societal organization the divides a single population into two distinct communities that may have conflicting interests. 1998, Joseph Garcea, Bicommunalism and the Bifurcation of the Immigration System, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 3 The pre-1960 era conceptualization of bicommunalism characterized the Canadian polity as consisting of a French-Canadian nation located largely in Quebec, but with a substantial component located in other provinces and territories, and the English-Canadian nation located largely outside Quebec.