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A homeland is a place where a national or ethnic identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. [1] When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations.
The 10/27 Royal South Australian Regiment of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps adopted Pro Patria derived from the above line meaning "For One's Country" as their unit motto. The shorter phrase Pro Patria ("for the homeland") may or may be not related to the Horace quote: Pro Patria is the motto of the Higgins or O'Huigan clan.
The metropole of the British Empire was the island of Great Britain; i.e. the United Kingdom itself. The term is sometimes used even more specifically to refer to London as the metropole of the Empire, insofar as the politicians and businessmen of London exerted the greatest influence throughout the Empire in both diplomatic, economic and military forms.
A homeland for the Jewish people is an idea rooted in Jewish history, religion, and culture. The Jewish aspiration to return to Zion , generally associated with divine redemption, has suffused Jewish religious thought since the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile .
As a collective phenomenon, it can arise from the presence of "common points" in people's daily lives: national symbols, language, the nation's history, national consciousness, and cultural artifacts. [5] Subjectively, it is a feeling one shares with a group of people about a nation, regardless of one's legal citizenship status. [6]
A human being moved by such selfless love and charity does not pause to think whether the child is a family member or a close relative. When he rescues the child from danger, he does not even ask himself whether the child is his own or belongs to another." [13]: 143 Patriotism is used to dehumanize others whom we would naturally have empathy for
Ancestral domain or ancestral lands are the lands, territories and resources of indigenous peoples, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. The term differs from indigenous land rights, Aboriginal title or Native Title by directly indicating relationship to land based on ancestry, while domain indicates relationships beyond material lands and territories, including spiritual and cultural ...
Section 101, "Purpose", of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act explains the aims of the Hawaiian Homelands program as follows: (a) ... to enable native Hawaiians to return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians and the self-determination of native Hawaiians in the administration of this Act, and the preservation of the values, traditions, and culture of ...