Social anthropologists argue that language is a part of culture. It is given by the society to the individual. In fact, language and culture are one. However, for practical purposes, it is generally convenient to keep them distinct and separate.
There is no doubt that two people can share in what is substantially the same culture and yet speak fundamentally different idioms and, therefore, feel themselves to be separate nationalities. For instance, the Indians living in England share the same culture with the local people but consider themselves as Indians.
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This means that the concept of nationality is fundamentally subjective whereas both languages and cultures are objectively alike or unlike, united or distinct. It must be said that nation and state are political concepts whereas nationality is essentially ethnic and anthropological. Kroeber strikes an important conclusive note in this respect:
All in all, anthropology is more immediately concerned with nationalities than with nations, with ethnic than with political groupings. And, in nationalities and ethnic units, language is always a factor, and often the basic one.