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How did nationalism developed through culture in Europe explain |
| Answer» Nationalism developed through culture in Europe:\tCulture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation.\xa0Art, music, literature and drama helped to express, shape and strengthen nationalist sentiments.\tThe cultural movement of\xa0Romanticism\xa0aimed at developing a particular form of nationalist sentiment. Romantic artists and poets generally focussed on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings and criticized the glorification of reason and science.\tRomantics 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.\xa0The true spirit of a nation was popularised\xa0through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances.\tThe emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local folklore were used to carry the modern nationalist message to large audiences who were mostly illiterates. | |