Question

What is the significance of the cultural development in the field of creation of nation states in Europe??

Answer 1

Answer:

There is a lot of significance of cultural development in creation of nation states. These cultural processes helped in creating a sense of collective belongingness which helped to create a feeling nationalism.

Answer 2

Culture has played an important role in development of nationalism in Europe during 18th and 19th centuries and creation of nation states

Explanation:

• Romantic writers and poets have typically been vocal opponents of truth and science in its glorified 'form". Further thoughts, instincts, and spiritual feelings have become the subject of the Romantics. They sought to create a sense of shared collective heritage and a common cultural part as the foundation of a country.
• Nationalism was not only established through conflicts and colonial extension. Throughout developing the new ideology, literature played an significant part, with painting and poetry, stories and music helping to express and mold nationalist emotions. Romanticism was a cultural movement seeking to develop a certain form of nationalist feeling.
• The German philosopher, "Johann Gottfried Herder", a Romantic , claimed that the common people,  should be found with true German culture. He believed the "true spirit" of the country was preserved through folk music, folk dances & folk poetry. He encouraged these forms of folk culture to be collected and recorded as essential to the process of nation building.
• The focus of collection of "local folklore" & "vernacular language" was to recover  an antiquity of the national spirit and also to carry the modern nationalist message to large, largely illiterate audiences, as the brothers Grimm (Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1812) did. Although Poland no longer existed as an sovereign state, there national feelings were kept alive by way of language and music