Leora Auslander wrote, in \u201cNational Taste? Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920 \u2013 1940,\u201d how the concept of European national citizenship developed in the years between the world wars. She theorizes that the concept of citizenship is inextricably linked to the cultural understanding an individual\u2019s everyday life, and that this link is traceable through the evidence of not political but anthropologic sources. Specifically she examines how the French and German citizens developed from regional to national citizens focusing on cultural norms and uniformity. She further divides the research into two group, the Jews and Gentiles, who lived on either side of the Rhine River.<\/p>\n
She finds that citizenship is a concept already well developed by the twentieth century. Looking back to the French Revolution and German Unification, the idea of the larger national identity is a growing force of the centralized state. Her conclusion, drawn on detailed evidence and sound logic, discovers that the cultural similarities between the French population\u2019s Jewish are strikingly consistent. That, juxtaposed to the German population of a similarly diverse Jewish and non Jewish body, are comparably also unified, but distinctly separate from that of the French nation.<\/p>\n
Overall, the article seeks out a meaningful comparison through abstract means of developing an individual citizen. It deeply resonates with \u201cThe Lost Children\u201d accounts of nationalism. The product of the French national education discussed in Zahar\u2019s work is culminated in the uniformity of French society viewed in Auslander\u2019s article. Therefore, in a sense singing \u201cLa Marseillaise\u201d as a child in the French educational system had an affect proven by the homogeny of the French interwar population in comparison to the Germans or other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leora Auslander wrote, in \u201cNational Taste? Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920 \u2013 1940,\u201d how the concept of European national citizenship developed in the years between the world wars. She theorizes that the … Continue reading