A homeland (rel. country of origin and native land) is the concept of the territory (cultural geography) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country in which a particular national identity began. Country of origin is the country of manufacture production or growth where an article or product comes from Cultural geography is a sub-field within Human geography. Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variation across and relations to spaces and In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty 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 cognates in other languages (ie. Cognates in Linguistics are words that have a common origin They may occur within a language such as shirt and skirt as two English words descended from Heimatland in German) often have ethnic nationalist connotations: Fatherland, Motherland, Mother country, each having some distinct interpretation according to nationality or historical usage. Ethnic nationalism is a form of Nationalism wherein the " Nation " is defined in terms of Ethnicity. Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers" " Forefathers " or "patriarchs" Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, ie the place of one's birth the place of origin of an Ethnic group or Immigrant, or a Metropole Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, ie the place of one's birth the place of origin of an Ethnic group or Immigrant, or a Metropole

Homeland defense in 1887: the French Third Republic embodied as a Gallic warrior by Émile Boisseau (Place d'Ajaccio, Paris)

Various meanings

• The Soviet Union, which commonly referred to its homeland as "Mother Russia," created homelands for some minorities in the 1920s, including the Volga German ASSR and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( German: Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik der Wolgadeutschen, abbreviated A Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia Often, as in the case of the Volga German ASSR, these homelands were later abolished and their inhabitants deported to either Siberia or the Kazakh SSR. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы Qazaq Keñestik Socialistik Respublikasi; Казахская
• In the current United States, the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threats. Imminent threat is a standard criterion in International law, developed by Daniel Webster, for when the need for action is "instant overwhelming and leaving The term is rarely used by common United States citizens to refer to their country, which made the chosen name sound odd to many. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1] In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in Brooklyn New York) is an author of seven books on politics religion and culture The Presidency of George W Bush began on his inauguration on January 20, 2001 as the 43rd and current President of the United States of America Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now". ^[2]
• In the apartheid era in South Africa, the concept was given a different meaning. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa The white government transformed the 13% of its territory that had been exempted from white settlement into regions of "home-rule". Then they tried to bestow independence on these regions, so that they could then claim that the other 87% was white territory. 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 called the bantustan. A bantustan or more commonly black african homeland or simply homeland, was territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South-West
• 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 is the nation of one's "fathers" " Forefathers " or "patriarchs" It was also the name of a strongly pro-Nazi magazine edited by Wilhelm Weiss during the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Wilhelm Weiss ( German Wilhelm Weiß) (born 31 March 1892 in Stadtsteinach; died 24 February 1950 in Wasserburg

See also

• Homeland Security
• Separatism
• Secession
• List of ethnic groups
• Diaspora politics
• Fatherland
• Motherland
• Bantustan

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