- Anthropologists discuss the centrality of language in the development of civilization and of culture. The French people experienced a revolt that shaped their culture and language according to the Parisian model, molding a people with a uniform and unifying culture - the basis for French patriotism and French nationalism. The government as well as the printing industry, in their efforts to create as wide a market as possible, played a major role in this standardization of different dialects of the language.