부산대학교 도서관

The article explores the nature and development of the modern Afrikaners nationalism. In official history books, and in popular literature, the Afrikaner people, their way of life, and their ideas are considered to be the products of the Calvinist tradition in South Africa. Some sociologists opine that it was the nineteenth century, Dutch neo-Calvinism which influenced the modern Afrikaner ideology. Nationalism was a universally practiced policy and a cultural phenomenon in the nineteenth century in the western countries of the world. The Netherlands partially derived its character from its role as a mediator between the closed cultures of Germany, France and England. The Dutch nationalism appears to have contributed to the growth, formulation and intellectual development of Afrikaner nationalism, especially during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Many Dutchman consciously stimulated this reinforcement of the Dutch character of the Afrikaner nationality. The strongly revived interest in the Netherlands for the Afrikaner Boers, was an expression of typically Dutch cultural imperialism..