WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ernst Renan believed that the existence of nations is a necessity because
A
it ensures protection to all inhabitants.
B
it ensures liberty to all inhabitant citizens.
C
it ensures Parliamentary form of government to its inhabitants.
D
it ensures jobs and good health to all its inhabitants.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ernst Renan believed that the existence of nations is a necessity because. it ensures protection to all inhabitants. it ensures liberty to all inhabitant citizens.

Detailed explanation-2: -As per Ernst Renan if anyone has the right to be consulted in a nation, it is the inhabitants. The existence of a nation is like a daily plebiscite, a large scale solidarity. In a nation, the people wish to perform more, the people of a nation should have common will in the present, and have common glories in the past.

Detailed explanation-3: -Renan believed that racial characteristics were instinctual and deterministic. He has been criticised for his claims that the Semitic race is inferior to the Aryan race.

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