Nationalist revival frames the vernacular’s decline as a shameful gap to be redeemed

Evidence

For the first time the nation surveys the hideous spectacle of its ignorance and trembles in measuring with the eye the distance separating it from its ancestors’ glory. This painful discovery, however, does not precipitate the Greeks into despair: We are the descendants of Greeks, they implicitly told themselves, we must either try to become again worthy of this name, or we must not bear it. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 294

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Popular nationalism reproduced exclusion by demanding linguistic uniformity — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 386; Peoples without states fell back on language and ethnicity as national identity; Resurgent nationalism fuses invented tradition with narcissistic minor-difference resentment. (+3 more)

Related

• Early English language expansion preemptively foreclosed Scottish vernacular nationalism (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.79)
• Peoples without states fell back on language and ethnicity as national identity (similarity 0.79)
• Languages came to be seen as the property of specific national communities (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.78)
• Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Popular nationalism reproduced exclusion by demanding linguistic uniformity #expands (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 386
• Early English language expansion preemptively foreclosed Scottish vernacular nationalism #exemplifies (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 359
• Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe #corroborates (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 480
• Peoples without states fell back on language and ethnicity as national identity #exemplifies (0.75)
• Resurgent nationalism fuses invented tradition with narcissistic minor-difference resentment. #complicates (0.75)
• Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism #expands (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 667