Nationalism, at its core, wants everyone to be the same.

Having a common language is one big part

of expressing that "sameness". When it comes to how a country views and defines itself, there are
different ways the people of that country can view it. Nationalism is one way it can be viewed. The idea
behind Nationalism is that the people view themselves as unified as a single group - as a single type of
person. They desire to share the same culture, the same language, the same values as everyone else
within the country. It's a philosophy that desires to take away the differences between people, with a
typical Nationalist thinking "If I think this way, everyone else thinks this way too. If I act this way,
everyone else acts this way too. My values are everyone's values." Nationalists see the country as
weaker if there are differences. For a Nationalist, a common language is vital, because having people
speak the same language indicates there is no difference between people - said in a different way,
someone who speaks a foreign language is, by definition, a "foreigner", therefore different, therefore
not to be trusted.

Nationalist movements aim to establish territorially bounded political units or states within which
everyone would belong to a culturally homogeneous community or nation whose members would speak
the same language. The premise of ‘one state, one nation, and one language’ has been and remains the
slogan of most nationalist discourse. In this discourse the existence of multiple ethnic communities with
disparate languages within a single state is seen as undesirable. The main role of a national language is
to culturally homogenize the nation so that the state, nation, and language come to coincide with one
another. It is obvious that languages play an important role in various aspects of our daily lives. Their
role is not only limited to communication, rather it extends into the vast branches of knowledge and
human sciences. Languages are capable of developing human knowledge and extending it for the
benefit of human kind