A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. When used as a proper noun, the word (and its cognates in other languages; e.g., ''Heimatland'' in German) has ethnic nationalism connotations. As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin. There are synonyms with varying connotations: fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, and native land. In apartheid South Africa the concept was given a whole new meaning. 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. See Bantustan. The Soviet Union created homelands for some minorities in the 1920s, including the Volga German ASSR and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Often, as in the case of the Volga German ASSR, these homelands were later brutally abolished and their inhabitants deported to either Siberia or the Kazakh SSR. It was extremely rare for the term to be used by United States citizens to describe their own country up until the term of President George W. Bush and the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was more common for people to use it to refer to the land of their ancestors, so many found the use of the term to be jarring. ==See also== *Homeland Security *Separatism *List of Ethnic Groups
Changed Taiwan to Tibet. There is a Taiwan independence movement, but the notion of Taiwan as a ethnic homeland isn't very strong. In fact supporters of Taiwan independence tend to regard Taiwan as a land of immigrants and try to stay away from the idea of ethnic nationalism because that is regarded as giving the PRC a claim over Taiwan and would also set up conflict between the different ethnicities within Taiwan, one of which contains large number of people who were not born in Taiwan. Tibet is a better example. ---- Cunctator, thanks for pointing out this article. In this context, a Palestinian homeland means that Arabs living in the region sometimes known as "Palestine" are looking for a country to belong to. Since no bordering Islamic country has shown any interest in letting them settle permanently, let alone become citizens, they must feel frustrated. Perhaps it is not politically expedient for them to criticize other Arabs; while no one seems to mind if they criticize Israel. The bad blood between Judaism and Islam goes back centuries, I guess. If Jordan, et al., continue to refuse to help Arabs displaced by the establishment of Israel (54 years ago!), they can either: #become Israeli citizens, as some agreed to do #grab land in the Sinai or Jordan (e.g., the East Bank) #keep trying to make the West Bank a homeland #claim and try to get Israel as a homeland called "Palestine" (as their maps currently show it be) #or a combination of #3 and #4 Or, they could stop trying to get a homeland and just live wherever they find themselves to be, under the governments currently in existence, as the Kurds and Bedouins are doing. user:Ed Poor, Monday, April 8, 2002 ---- :''[Could have a whole section on aspirations to attain a homeland: Basque separatists, Israeli-Arab conflict, Tibet, Kurdistan.]'' I removed the above from the article text, because comments like these don't belong there (and although I do agree with the comment, I'm not going to write that section right now) User:Leif 01:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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Words begining with Homeland:
Homeland
Homeland
Homeland,_CA
Homeland,_California
Homeland,_GA
Homeland,_Georgia
Homelands
Homelands_(Magic:_The_Gathering)
Homelands_Festival
Homeland_(Israel)
Homeland_(South_Africa)
Homeland_defense
Homeland_Movement_(album)
Homeland_Movement_(album)
Homeland_Park
Homeland_Park,_SC
Homeland_Park,_South_Carolina
Homeland_Security
Homeland_security
Homeland_security
Homeland_Security_Act
Homeland_Security_Act
Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002
Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council
Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
Homeland_Security_Department
Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directives
Homeland_Union_(Lithuanian_Conservatives)
Homeland
A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. When used as a proper noun, the word (and its cognates in other languages; e.g., ''Heimatland'' in German) has ethnic nationalism connotations. As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin. There are synonyms with varying connotations: fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, and native land. In apartheid South Africa the concept was given a whole new meaning. 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. See Bantustan. The Soviet Union created homelands for some minorities in the 1920s, including the Volga German ASSR and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Often, as in the case of the Volga German ASSR, these homelands were later brutally abolished and their inhabitants deported to either Siberia or the Kazakh SSR. It was extremely rare for the term to be used by United States citizens to describe their own country up until the term of President George W. Bush and the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was more common for people to use it to refer to the land of their ancestors, so many found the use of the term to be jarring. ==See also== *Homeland Security *Separatism *List of Ethnic Groups
Homeland
Changed Taiwan to Tibet. There is a Taiwan independence movement, but the notion of Taiwan as a ethnic homeland isn't very strong. In fact supporters of Taiwan independence tend to regard Taiwan as a land of immigrants and try to stay away from the idea of ethnic nationalism because that is regarded as giving the PRC a claim over Taiwan and would also set up conflict between the different ethnicities within Taiwan, one of which contains large number of people who were not born in Taiwan. Tibet is a better example. ---- Cunctator, thanks for pointing out this article. In this context, a Palestinian homeland means that Arabs living in the region sometimes known as "Palestine" are looking for a country to belong to. Since no bordering Islamic country has shown any interest in letting them settle permanently, let alone become citizens, they must feel frustrated. Perhaps it is not politically expedient for them to criticize other Arabs; while no one seems to mind if they criticize Israel. The bad blood between Judaism and Islam goes back centuries, I guess. If Jordan, et al., continue to refuse to help Arabs displaced by the establishment of Israel (54 years ago!), they can either: #become Israeli citizens, as some agreed to do #grab land in the Sinai or Jordan (e.g., the East Bank) #keep trying to make the West Bank a homeland #claim and try to get Israel as a homeland called "Palestine" (as their maps currently show it be) #or a combination of #3 and #4 Or, they could stop trying to get a homeland and just live wherever they find themselves to be, under the governments currently in existence, as the Kurds and Bedouins are doing. user:Ed Poor, Monday, April 8, 2002 ---- :''[Could have a whole section on aspirations to attain a homeland: Basque separatists, Israeli-Arab conflict, Tibet, Kurdistan.]'' I removed the above from the article text, because comments like these don't belong there (and although I do agree with the comment, I'm not going to write that section right now) User:Leif 01:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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Homeland
Homeland
Homeland,_CA
Homeland,_California
Homeland,_GA
Homeland,_Georgia
Homelands
Homelands_(Magic:_The_Gathering)
Homelands_Festival
Homeland_(Israel)
Homeland_(South_Africa)
Homeland_defense
Homeland_Movement_(album)
Homeland_Movement_(album)
Homeland_Park
Homeland_Park,_SC
Homeland_Park,_South_Carolina
Homeland_Security
Homeland_security
Homeland_security
Homeland_Security_Act
Homeland_Security_Act
Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002
Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council
Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
Homeland_Security_Department
Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directives
Homeland_Union_(Lithuanian_Conservatives)
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