How did culture play an important role in creating the idea of the nation in Europe? Explain with examples.
- CULTURE played an important role in creating the idea of the nation. Art and poetry, stories and music helped express and shape nationalist feelings.
- Romanticism was cultural movement that brought to the development of nationalist sentiment.
- Romantic artists and poets criticized the glorification of reason and science and instead focused on emotion and institution.
- Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation.
- Nations were then portrayed as female figures. In France, she was named Marianne.
- Vernacular language and the collection, of local folklore cany the modern nationalist message to large audiences.
- After Russian occupation the Polish language was forced out of schools and Russian language was imposed. Many members of the clergy in Poland began to use language as a weapon of national resistance.
- German philosopher claimed that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people.