How was one nation able to create so much great literature?
How was one nation able to create so much great literature?
Wyatt Gutierrez
William White
the irish wrote half of it anyway
Asher Evans
The nation didn't create it. This type of statist reasoning seems intuitive because we've been indoctrinated into it all our lives but in reality it is fallacious. What percentage of the British population, historically, created great literature? 0.00000001%? And in what capacity had the British state anything to do with it? Not very much I suppose. States and nations don't create literature, individuals do; those individuals may be influenced by the culture they grew up in, but if that's what you are going off then you should never group Shakespeare with, say, Huxley, since they grew up in vastly different cultures.
Joshua Lopez
t. envious midwit
Kayden Hall
Of what? I'm british.
Isaac Cook
What kind of retarded judgement is this? Who are you to say individuals are influenced by culture, as if it exists in a vacuum? Are Shelley’s England in 1819, or Henry V, or The Pearl Poet’s Gawain not all richly steeped in a culture generated by-and-for the nation? These examples, chosen at random, are all works of British people. They can be grouped together by that very category. You are foolish to assume that a national identity isn’t a hugely forceful influence on a text.
Ethan Smith
That's not even one nation's flag- the union jack represents a state consisting of, at the very least, four distinct nations.
James Jones
The Irish
Cooper Smith
This.
That flag represents 7 different languages (one is no extinct) and only 4 of them have any literature. OP is a mongo
Aaron Johnson
you know nations can have multiple languages, right?