why are countries mostly'female'?

Question

everyone calls a country a 'she',why?(for example, Russia, 'she' is the most biggest country in the world)( i put it in travel is because i can't find a category)

Russia is called the Motherland

Answer 1

Patriotism is pledging love, allegiance, and protection to your native land. In the past women were second class citizens so the only people that mattered in patriotism were the men. In those days men only LOVED women (or only publicly did). They protected them cherished them were loyal to them and loved--just like they were to their native land. So nations were refered to in the feminine and so were boats.

Then there is the "mother earth" thing.

Answer 2

i think of the prettiest gamers on the expert circuit are often from Russia and Serbia and that they often have very high quality figures too. interior the eighty's there became an fairly proper Argentinian participant with very dark hair and blue eyes whose call escapes me top now. She became an fairly good participant too. Does everybody undergo in recommendations her call?

Answer 3

It is mainly females of any species that reproduce or are receptacles to multiply. Countries as such, just like the earth, are considered to be of female gender. Countries also produce people and many things are produced by them and they survive because of these produces.Thus countries are considered female. Any way I am just being logical.

Answer 4

Probibly because of the care they take for them, the love they have for them, and more, making them felmale-like in thier opinions.

As to mother earth: Gaia, the godess of earth, and maker of the world, was a female. Therefore; mother earth.

Answer 5

Because men own most of the things on earth, so we call them ower baby, showing a part of love we have for our women

Answer 6

I guess the same reason people name boats, guns, cars, planes, etc. It's just men applying terms of endearment to these things as they would a woman.

Answer 7

It is an affectionate term, used by a male dominated society used for something, that they initially love.

Answer 8

Just an old tradition - maybe because men used to own all the property, land, boats etc. and they liked to refer to things they own as "she." Hmmm...

Answer 9

because people are idiots, things should be referred to as "it" Ex: It is the largest country in the world.

Answer 10

I don't think you have done your homework: Germany was known as the Fatherland, Ireland as Mother Ireland, England as John Bull (another male) - as for Russia .........................