Question

Discuss the importance of language and popular traditions in the creation of national identity?

Chapter- Nationalism in Europe
Class-10th, History ​

Answer 1

Language and the popular tradition is a key representation of a national identity. A person is known by these two features in a foreign land. Every nation has its own mode of communication, culture and traditions. And when a person go abroad then he represents his nation by these two characteristics.

Answer 2

Answer:

I believe this is one of the most important aspects for a national identity, being the second, but not less important, culture, which includes different aspects like history, literature, arts, crafts, science and many other. Language creates a mindset, a shared identity, a way to communicate with your national peers in a way that no other people usually understand, no so much for the grammar or the meaning of the words, but for the feeling each sentence creates. It also allows expressing concepts that no other language can, which stem from history and the type of relationships that the physical environment creates. Language is so rich that the loss of one single language in the world destroys a huge part of the heritage our ancestors have added up.

This is why some big countries have worked so hard to destroy the language of smaller nationalities within, with or without success. They do not see that difference if more valuable than uniformity... and still they continue destroying or intending to do so...