Culture had played an important role in creating the idea of nationalism in Europe during the 18th and the 19th century. Support the statement with examples................
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natonalist feeling
ii) Romanticism was a cultural movement which plays a role in context. Romatic people and artist where critical of reasons and science
III) A sense of shared collective heritage was
developed
iv) folk dance, folk poem, folk song where consider as true expression of sprit of nation
v) speaker in a vernacular language was another expression of nationalism
Culture played an important role in creating the idea of a nation in Europe in the following ways.
1. Art, music, literature and drama helped to express, shape and strengthen nationalist sentiments.
2. Romantics like the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder held the view that true German culture could be discovered only among the common people, the das volk.
3.Glorification of reason and science was criticised by the romantic artists, rather they favoured emotions, intuitions and mystical feelings.
4.Language too boosted nationalism. The Polish people opposed the Russian occupation and the ban on Polish language, by using it in the Church gathering for all religious ceremonies and for religious instruction. The Polish language became a weapon of the nationalists.
5.Two Germans, Grimm Brothers, used stories and folktales written in German to promote the German spirit against the domination of the French.
6.Operas and music, like that of Karol Kurpinski, kept alive the national spirit.
7.Folk dances like the polonaise and mazurki became national symbols.