Q.Neither descent, nor language, nor religion or ethnicity can claim to be a common factor in nationalisms all over the world. Comment.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →No single shared characteristic — not descent, not language, not religion, not ethnicity — is present in every nation across the world; nations are held together instead by shared belief, history, territory and political ideals, not by any one fixed cultural marker.
It is commonly assumed that nations must be constituted by some shared objective feature such as descent, language, religion or ethnicity. But looking at real nations shows this isn't true. Many nations do not have a common language — Canada includes both English- and French-speaking peoples, and India has a large number of languages spoken across its different regions and communities. Nor do many nations share a common religion to unite them; the same could be said of characteristics like race or descent — no single such feature is present across every nation in the world. …
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