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A homeland (rel. country of origin
Country of origin

Country of origin , is the country of manufacture, production, or growth where an merchandise or product comes from. There are differing rules of origin under various national laws and international treaties....
 and native land) is the concept of the territory (cultural geography
Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a sub-field within human geography. Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and places....
) to which an ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
 holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
 in which a particular national identity
Nationality

Nationality is a the relationship between a person and their state of origin, culture, association, affiliation and/or loyalty. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state....
 began. As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin. When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its cognate
Cognate

Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymology origin.An example of cognates within the same language would be English shirt vs....
s in other languages (ie. Heimatland in German) often have ethnic nationalist
Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism is a form of nationalism wherein the "nation" is defined in terms of ethnicity. Whatever specific ethnicity is involved, ethnic nationalism always includes some element of Kinship and descent from previous generations....
 connotations: Fatherland
Fatherland

Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers", "forefathers" or "patriarchs". It can be viewed as a nationalism concept, insofar as it relates to nations....
, Motherland
Motherland

Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, i.e. the place of one's birth, the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant, or a Metropole in contrast to its colony....
, Mother country, each having some distinct interpretation according to nationality or historical usage.








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A homeland (rel. country of origin
Country of origin

Country of origin , is the country of manufacture, production, or growth where an merchandise or product comes from. There are differing rules of origin under various national laws and international treaties....
 and native land) is the concept of the territory (cultural geography
Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a sub-field within human geography. Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and places....
) to which an ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
 holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
 in which a particular national identity
Nationality

Nationality is a the relationship between a person and their state of origin, culture, association, affiliation and/or loyalty. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state....
 began. As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin. When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its cognate
Cognate

Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymology origin.An example of cognates within the same language would be English shirt vs....
s in other languages (ie. Heimatland in German) often have ethnic nationalist
Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism is a form of nationalism wherein the "nation" is defined in terms of ethnicity. Whatever specific ethnicity is involved, ethnic nationalism always includes some element of Kinship and descent from previous generations....
 connotations: Fatherland
Fatherland

Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers", "forefathers" or "patriarchs". It can be viewed as a nationalism concept, insofar as it relates to nations....
, Motherland
Motherland

Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, i.e. the place of one's birth, the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant, or a Metropole in contrast to its colony....
, Mother country, each having some distinct interpretation according to nationality or historical usage.

Various meanings

  • In German, homeland is translated as "Heimatland", and this was a term used by the Nazis to refer to the more common German term "Vaterland" ("Fatherland
    Fatherland

    Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers", "forefathers" or "patriarchs". It can be viewed as a nationalism concept, insofar as it relates to nations....
    "). It was also the name of a strongly pro-Nazi magazine edited by Wilhelm Weiss
    Wilhelm Weiss

    Wilhelm Weiss was, in the time of the Third Reich, an Sturmabteilung Obergruppenf?hrer as well as Editing-in-chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the V?lkischer Beobachter...
     during the rise of.
  • The Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
     created homelands for some minorities in the 1920s, including the Volga German ASSR and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
    Jewish Autonomous Oblast

    Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia situated in the Far Eastern Federal District federal districts of Russia, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of People's Republic of China....
    . In the case of the Volga German ASSR, these homelands were later abolished and their inhabitants deported to either Siberia
    Siberia

    Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
     or the Kazakh SSR
    Kazakh SSR

    The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Kazakh SSR for short, was one of Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the Soviet Union....
    .
  • In the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threat
    Imminent threat

    Imminent threat is a standard criterion in international law, developed by Daniel Webster, for when the need for action is "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." In such a case, he argued, the use of force in Self-defense is justified....
    s. The term is rarely used by common United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     citizens to refer to their country, which made the chosen name sound odd to many. In a June 2002 column, Republican
    Republican Party (United States)

    The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
     consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan
    Peggy Noonan

    Peggy Noonan is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan....
     expressed the hope that the Bush administration
    George W. Bush administration

    The Presidency of George W. Bush began on his George W. Bush 2001 presidential inauguration on January 20, 2001 as the 43rd President of the United States....
     would change the name of the department, writing that, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now".
  • In the apartheid
    History of South Africa in the apartheid era

    Apartheid ? meaning separateness in Dutch language ? was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994....
     era in South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
    , the concept was given a different meaning. The white government had designated approximately 13% of its territory for black tribal settlement. Whites and other non-blacks were restricted from owning land or settling in those areas. After 1948 they were gradually granted an increasing level of "home-rule". From 1976 several of these regions were granted independence. Four of them were declared independent nations by South Africa, but were unrecognized as independent countries by any other nation besides each other and South Africa. The territories set aside for the African inhabitants were also known as bantustans.


See also

  • Homeland Security
    Homeland security

    The term homeland security refers to a security effort by a government to protect a nation against perceived external or internal threat.The term is almost exclusively used in the United States; elsewhere, the activities of "homeland security" fall under a combination of national security and associated security services or the customs...
  • Separatism
    Separatism

    Separatism refers to the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial or gender separation from the larger group, often with demands for greater political Autonomous entity and even for full political secession and the formation of a new state....
  • Secession
    Secession

    Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity. It is not to be confused with succession, the act of following in order or sequence....
  • List of ethnic groups
    List of ethnic groups

    The following is a list of lists of ethnic groups:...
  • Diaspora politics
    Diaspora politics

    Diaspora politics is the study of the Theories of political behavior of transnational ethnic groups diasporas, their relationship with their ethnic homelands and their host states, as well as their prominent role in ethnic conflicts....
  • Fatherland
    Fatherland

    Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers", "forefathers" or "patriarchs". It can be viewed as a nationalism concept, insofar as it relates to nations....
  • Motherland
    Motherland

    Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, i.e. the place of one's birth, the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant, or a Metropole in contrast to its colony....
  • Bantustan
    Bantustan

    A bantustan or euphemistically black african homeland or simply homeland, was territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South-West Africa , as part of the policy of South Africa under apartheid....


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