How would you describe your country?

[PhroX]

^ that too...

 

[Zkribbler]

Words like "fatherland," "motherland," and "homeland" seem to fit comfortably into the mouths of jingoistic tyrants. On those rare occasions I refer to my nation by something other than its name, I use the phrase, "the Republic."

 

[Synobun]

Words like "fatherland," "motherland," and "homeland" seem to fit comfortably into the mouths of jingoistic tyrants. On those rare occasions I refer to my nation by something other than its name, I use the phrase, "the Republic."

First it's a Republic, then it's a Galactic Empire.

 

[Zkribbler]

First it's a Republic, then we get off the planet, and then it's a Galactic Empire.

Fixed.

 

[HoloDoc]

Never have you seen a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

The Motherland, or mother country, is Britain. The Fatherland is always Germany, because WWII. BROTHERLAND sounds like something out of Arrested Development. We just call it home, or the homeland, if anything at all.

 

[Lexicus]

BROTHERLAND sounds like something out of Arrested Development. We just call it home, or the homeland, if anything at all.

"We've gotta find this hermano guy"

 

[Hehehe]

I was going to say Fatherland, but it's 2018 and that would be sexist, so I'm going with Parentland instead

 

[HoloDoc]

"We've gotta find this hermano guy"

"I'm in love with your brother..."

"You bastard! You did it again!"

"... In-law."

 

[cardgame]

Never have you seen a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

The Motherland, or mother country, is Britain. The Fatherland is always Germany, because WWII. BROTHERLAND sounds like something out of Arrested Development. We just call it home, or the homeland, if anything at all.

I actually stole it off the song Hollywood by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The Fubarland?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

At this point I describe my country reluctantly.

 

[Perfection]

 

[BirraImperial]

It's my fatherland...The only place on Earth I'd rather be, although I love travelling and discovering the World...The land of the Pura Vida and the home of my family...

 

[Verbose]

"Fädernesland", "moderland", "hemland", they all work in Swedish.

Traditional personification of the place is Mother Svea though:

 

[Lexicus]

Ha. So that's why the fascist Sweden I created in HOI4 is called "Svea Rike"

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Countries, landmasses, etc. strike me as female rather than male. My home country is mother earth and I am a citizien of the cosmos.

 

[The_J]

Is there a meaningful reason why one of the other is picked in any language?
I thought it was random .

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Is there a meaningful reason why one of the other is picked in any language?
I thought it was random .

I don't really think anything concerning language is very "random", after all language is what we use to transmit meaning. Languages develop organically, at some point someone, or a group of people, decided (whether consciously or not does not really matter) to use one over another, and from then on the language was developed into another direction and so forth.

Clearly someone who prefers to refer to their home as "fatherland" over "motherland" wants to paint a very distinct picture I would argue.

If you, however, replace random with "arbitrary" then maybe I'd agree, still not sure. What does random even mean?Random is something that defies any expectation, logic and only adheres to it's own rule, the rule of randomness. Randomness is entirely unpredictable, it is truly chaotic. Arbitrary is similiar, but arbitrary is not chaotic. Arbitrary, to me, means something that is not grounded in reason, emotion, preference, or anything. Something, maybe a decision, that is grounded in virtually nothing. Is that even possible? Thanks for this opportunity to rant! I've wanted to collect my thoughts on this for a while.

 

[Angst]

Paradise for white people
(Denmark)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The first verse of the national anthem of Canada contains the line "Our home and native land". That line has become political, given the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations for reconciling as much as possible with the First Nations/aboriginal/indigenous people. Some cynics prefer to change it to "Our home on Native land."

And it's ironic anyway, considering that so many Canadians weren't actually born here. But I was, and so I don't have a problem with that particular line.