The main distinguishing feature of any nation is its language. Without a language, people simply cannot exist, because all communication is “tied” to it. If there was no language, people simply could not agree.
Instruction manual
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In the world there are many nations, both inhabiting a vast territory, and living in a relatively small area, both numerous and small. Each nation has characteristic features peculiar to it that relate to literally all aspects of life: family relationships, customs, traditions, and behaviors.
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Why does language play such an important role in the life of the people? At first glance, the answer is very simple: it is impossible to communicate with each other without a language! But this is only part of the truth. The fact is that with the help of language a continuous process of education and training of all new and new generations is carried out, instilling in them the very customs, traditions, values that form the national self-consciousness, lifestyle.
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Talking about the history of their people, their achievements, glorious and tragic pages, the older generations instill in younger people pride in their people, the desire to be worthy of their best sons and daughters. Without this, neither the continuity of generations nor patriotism can be considered. But it is precisely the continuity of generations and patriotism that enable the people to survive, to avoid assimilation with the larger surrounding peoples, for example.
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Language makes it possible to form specific folk traits and mentality. It is no accident that even neighboring peoples living practically in the same geographical and climatic conditions, leading a similar lifestyle, often differ from each other literally in everything, primarily in the manner of behavior and communication, habits, and character traits.
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Of course, all of the above does not mean that you need to "fence off" from other languages, to avoid communication with other nations or arrogantly consider only your language, your habits and traditions as the best and correct. World history shows that any nation, even powerful and large, isolating itself from other nations, gradually weakens and ultimately turns out to be uncompetitive.
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Love for one’s language, one’s customs and traditions should not take the form of chauvinism. It is only necessary, communicating with other peoples, to adopt from them only the useful, and not the harmful. Then the people become stronger, and their language is enriched with new words. For example, in the Russian language there are many words of foreign origin, and it has become only richer and more figurative from this. Every year the dictionary of the Russian language is replenished with new words, turns.
