The Last Lesson : Linguistic Chauvinism and Cultural Hegemony

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Lesson 3,          Linguistic chauvinism& Cultural Hegemony             10th April 2020

A. Linguistic chauvinism is an ideology carried by people of certain language and believes that
                  1. Their language is superior to all other languages by all means
                  2. They enforce/impose/ oppress their language over to others
                  3. They hate/suppress/oppose other language.

B. In Imperialism, a geographical territory is ruled, and looted economically by certain rulers. In
Colonialism, along with geographical and economical exploitation, people of ruled territory are
manipulated in Cultural hegemony.

C. Cultural hegemony is an enforcement of rulers' culture, believing it as superior/supreme, over
the ruled one. Now a days most of the countries follow western culture as we Indians too, is
the result of colonialism, we were colony of British. We follow their patterns of food, cloth,
principles, beliefs, their way of education, their culture, their language, their mode of knowledge;
even though our Indian(precolonial) branches of science, education, lifestyle, principles, culture
is pretty good as compared to the western. We are actually westernised by all means and that
becomes possible through cultural hegemony.

Mahatma Gandhi says- The best weapon to change the society is education.
And that's true enough we were and we are put in an educational systems wherein cultural
hegemony implied. Now it has been nearly 73 years after independence (of India), we are still
under the influence of colonialism and its cultural hegemony. Linguistic chauvinism is also a
part of cultural hegemony. language is one of the most influential weapon to bring the ruled
under hegemony. Therefore rulers always want the ruled to learn the language of rulers. They
manipulate supremacy of their language over the natives.  

Our first lesson in Flamingo(textbook) i.e. The Last Lesson is best example of it.


M. A. Ghonshetwad
PGT English, JNV Yavatmal

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