Knowra Cultural nationalism Cultural nationalism Cultural nationalism asserts or strengthens national identity through shared heritage, language, literature, music, visual arts, and other cultural expressions.
National identity : A sense of belonging to a nation, shaped by shared history, culture, territory, or political affiliation. Cultural nationalism treats shared culture as a foundation for belonging to a nation.
Romantic nationalism : A form of nationalism that grounds national identity in shared language, folklore, history, and cultural character. It supplied a major intellectual model for treating culture as the basis of national belonging.
Irish Literary Revival : A late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement that renewed Irish literature and helped shape modern Irish cultural identity. Writers and cultural institutions made Irish history and experience central to national expression.
Civic nationalism : A form of nationalism that defines membership through shared citizenship and political principles rather than ancestry or culture. It offers a competing basis for national belonging when cultural unity is not the defining criterion.
Language policy : Public rules and practices governing the use, teaching, and status of languages. National cultural projects can turn language revival into decisions about schooling and official use.
National language : A language associated with a nation and used to express or represent its collective identity. Promoting a shared language can make cultural unity visible and distinguish a nation from others.
Herder : Johann Gottfried Herder was an eighteenth-century German philosopher who emphasized language and folk culture in collective identity. Herder's account of language and folk life helped shape cultural conceptions of nationhood.
Czech National Revival : A cultural movement that strengthened Czech language, literature, and historical consciousness under Habsburg rule. Its language and literary projects helped maintain Czech identity within a multinational empire.
Ethnic nationalism : A form of nationalism that grounds membership in shared ancestry, descent, or ethnic origin. It can overlap with cultural nationalism but makes descent, rather than cultural practice alone, central.
Cultural assimilation : The process by which a group adopts the culture of a more dominant group, often under pressure. A national culture promoted as shared can marginalize communities expected to conform to it.
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