Hør dog hvad de siger - Note-to-Self: Trials & Errors

This stands in implicit opposition to Scandinavian which – it is argued – must be more correct.
These views in turn go neatly with the overall rhetoric of globalization vs. that of the Nordic.
English is used for practical purposes; Scandinavian – in a wider sense, the mother tongue – is
used in the construction of identity. In a situation like this, there are bound to be rather diffe-
rent demands for the languages. Having access to an English language with few purist restric-
tions may seem like a rather ideal alternative to a mother tongue used with more purist senti-
ments albeit that the latter has the advantage of constructing a national and Nordic identity.
We have shown how the ideology of the Nordic lives on even in our present ‘globalized’
world. That is, even with the demands of ‘rationality’ and marketization, tradition and identity
still play a role. However, the ‘romantic’ ideologies are constantly being reworked, reinterpre-
ted and reused – as are of course the ‘rational ideologies’. Today, we can say that the ideology
of the Nordic takes expression as an instance of glocalization. But what we have tried to show
in this study is that the Nordic has always been a glocalized ideology – even before the term
glocalization was coined. It is this ideology that has kept the Nordic alive, and that still keeps
asserting itself in the different speech communities of Norden today.
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