2006-06-22 20:24:45 · 10 answers · asked by ~hoyo~ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Then why is it usually motherland?
2006-06-22 20:32:30 · update #1
It is a poetic convention. It is a personification of the pronoun for country. in the way a mother provides the nourishment for her baby, a country provides the nourishment for its peoples. Really, a country is an abstract thing that includes the land, the government, and the people and their culture. Things in English usually use the pronoun 'it' but 'she' invokes more feeling than it.
2006-06-22 21:43:10 · answer #1 · answered by klygen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't. Many countries are or were referred to in a masculine sense, such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and many Latin America countries.
It has become less popular since the term Fatherland was heavily associated with Nazi Germany.
2006-06-23 03:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by The Electric Skeptic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because who really wants to be represented by a guy?
2006-06-23 03:47:18 · answer #3 · answered by Courtney_09 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of sexism
2006-06-26 19:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the germans say the fatherland
2006-06-23 03:28:49 · answer #5 · answered by Cyrus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause it holds all its people like a mother holds its children.
2006-06-23 03:26:47 · answer #6 · answered by kubash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mtohers land cowar
2006-06-23 03:25:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just like we call 'mother nature' not father nature.
2006-06-23 03:27:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becoz its mother land....
2006-06-23 03:29:07 · answer #9 · answered by Deep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we dont
2006-06-23 03:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋