Love of one’s motherland and language are the cornerstone to one’s identity and self esteem.Discuss with reference to the last lesson
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It is quite true love of one’s motherland and mother-tongue are the cornerstone of one’s identity and self-esteem. Anyone who can’t love his country and national language can’t love anything and anyone in this world. Our country and language give us the most in our life; if we can’t love them, we are highly ungrateful beings in that case.
In the chapter Last Lesson by Alphonso Daudet we find linguistic chauvinism displayed by both the German and the French. Germans imposed their language on the French; whereas the French were concerned about losing their mother-tongue. They made all the plans to protect their mother-tongue.
It is good to love one’s country and mother-tongue; but we must not impose our love on others. Other also have the right to love their country and language. The world knows and respects us to the degree we love our country and tongue.