I don't live in the "Homeland". [View All]

[SoCalDem]

I don't live in the "Motherland"
I don't live in the "Fatherland"

I live in a state
My state is part of the UNITED states
My country is the sum of its parts

Until recently, when my country was spoken of by its leaders, it was called OUR COUNTRY..or THE UNITED STATES...or just AMERICA.

The re-naming of our country is just another exclusionary tactic to further isolate us .

Who qualifies as a "homelander". Are those of us who were born here MORE homelanderiffic than those who came here from a different "homeland" of their birth?

It always reminds me of how subjective the term "home" is.

People often speak of their "hometown". For some it's the town they were born in, for some it's the town of their childhood, for some it's the town they settle in to raise their own families, and for some it's whatever town they are in at any given time.

If an immigrant is from Quito, Ecuador, and resettles in Concord , Massachusetts, which one will they claim as their "hometown"?

It's OUR choice..

Our dear president loves to claim Midland or Crawford or Austin as his "hometowns" (carefully omitting any reference to his true north eastern roots).

I resent the linguistic gymnastics of recent years, every time one of our "leaders" refers to "the homeland" or "our homeland".

Do they mean all of us? some of us? which ones? the ones who voted for them? the ones who were born here? the ones who chose this place over a former "homeland"? the white ones? the brown ones?

Is OUR "homeland" anymore "special" than anyone else's homeland? Is Iraq a "homeland"? Is China? Is Iran?

EARTH is the ultimate homeland, and the people who so casually toss words around like frisbees, seem to care very little about IT, so why should we trust their so-called devotion to this one place among so many?