The homeland is not at all a country where a person lives, but rather a spiritual concept associated with the perception of the world and the feeling of being part of something higher. It is not for nothing that poems and songs are dedicated to this concept, so many patriotic and lyric works have been written.
Despite the fact that many explanatory dictionaries identify the word "homeland" with a geographical place, the country in which a person was born, inexorable facts indicate that sometimes moving to another city, country, continent makes a person completely plunge into a completely different life, feel yourself a part of something new, to feel your belonging to a previously alien land.
Thus, children transported to the territory of another state begin to fully identify themselves with the culture of another country, immerse themselves in its customs, traditions, calling the new place of residence the Motherland.
Family and world
It should be noted that the word "Motherland" is inextricably linked with the words "family" and "patriotism", because people can feel a real closeness to their roots and the country in which they were born and raised only in moments of deprivation, danger, threat impending on their native land … Homeland in this context is more likely a national spirit, a sense of belonging to a particular society inhabiting a particular territory, pride in its roots, and not an ordinary geographic region.
Since ancient times, the homeland has been glorified by many writers and poets, essays are written about it, poetry is dedicated, they give their lives for it, but they also betray it. Perhaps the Motherland is the place to which a person seeks to return from any corner of the globe, something that is associated with calmness, peace, what is usually called happiness.
The homeland is the place that a person can confidently call home, where, perhaps, his grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived, where he grew up and studied.
Transformation of the concept
It is interesting that in Pushkin's times the word "homeland" was used only in the context of the place of birth. The highest priority and importance was given to the concept of "homeland". Only during the Second World War did the word "Motherland" take root in the language and firmly stuck in the minds of fellow citizens as a country, the USSR, represented by artists in the form of a woman-mother calling to fight.
Today it is rather absurd to identify the Motherland with politics and power, to demand return and enrichment from it. People give their lives for the good of the Motherland only because this abstract concept, formed from the root "genus", is an absolute synonym for the motherland, or the land of the fathers, who gave their descendants life and the right to choose whether to stay on the land on which they have long lived and died ancestors, or look for a country that is more suitable in spirit, which they can sincerely call their homeland. Only one thing can be said with certainty: there can be only one homeland, and it combines many different concepts, such as language, culture, mentality.
