Okay, I'm not really good with making an introduction,
so the very first obstacle was finding a good enough preamble.
I know I might jump the gun a bit too far here, but this is just a short conveyance of
my ideas.
The main reason I'm doing this is to make people more aware of the actual meaning the words
hold. In this day and age, words like "racism", "love" and "hate" get way too easily used.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, racism is defined as: "Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior"
However, using that word requires acting against the current scientific consensus on human races, since we rather go after skin color and facial features when typically categorizing someone as black, yellow, white, brown or red (let me apologize if I missed some). Using the word racism is either abusing its actual meaning which is going against another race or having the believe that the human genome is diverse enough to have multiple races currently in this world - despite the fact that the vast majority are mostly homo sapiens sapiens. Descendants of ethnic Europeans and Asians might have homo neanderthalensis genes mixed as well.
"love" is one of the most overused words that people just seem to love talking about. I have no idea who thought it was okay to use an extreme emotion such as love for minor expressions such as "I love ice cream" or "Do you want to go to the next concert of ...?" - "I'd love to!" Instead of using "gladly!", "willingly!" or "readily!" or even "yes please!", most people just seem to love using the word "love". I have marked this overused word, isn't it lovely?
Similar can be said about "hate", in which not liking or even disliking something - yes, there's a difference between those two - nowadays is called "hate" and every person displaying this attitude towards a specific matter that seems to be important enough for someone is consequently called a "hater".
I don't like having "like" as a comparative like that, however the likelihood to use or to encounter it in your daily life like with the Facebook likes is just too high.
Then we have the classical example of using words as synonyms, which technically aren't or at least used to be, but it can't be used in this context anymore. I'm talking about "nation", "country" and "state".
"Nation" is basically defined as having a "large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory", but nowadays, every citizen from a particular state gets treated as such, despite there being vast differences in ethnic origin and/or cultural background.
I didn't use "country" here, because it's defined as a nation with its own territory. Meaning, something like Scotland with the Scottish, Wales with the Welsh, Northern Ireland (with the Irish living in the North of Ireland) and England with the English. Yes, popular states with federations are to blame (as well as it being a "condition") that the word "state" doesn't get its proper credit for being an organized community within a specific territory under one common government.
Personally I use the term "nation" always in the sense of having one people united by blood and culture; just like the French in France around the French Revolution. Since there are ethnic minorities like Frisians, Danes or Sorbs in my state (not talking about my federal state), which mostly have kept their blood and/or culture, I don't see them as part of the same nation, but rather as indigenous, native people living in the same territory that made up the federal republic of Germany.
On the other hand, immigrants or descendants in recent history from people that aren't ethnic Germans or have been at least assimilated into the German culture, also known as Germanization, can obtain a German Citizenship as well, however, they aren't seen as being "German". It might be easier for ethnic European immigrants, since Prussia basically contains a high Percentage of West Slavic people in it and those people have been acting on the Prussian virtues, defeating the "true-bred" German[ic] people from Austria, but unfortunately, another Austrian screwed up. btw.: one of the most confusing things you might have never heard or wouldn't have guessed, is the fact, that during the Second World War, Black people were also fighting for Nazi Germany as you can see here.
Anyway, with the incorrect usage of words, they lose their actual meaning and/or the power behind them. You might also loose the possibility to even think about the concept of there being a difference between a nation, country or state, accidentally lump together indigenous people of being natives of the same nation or even consider people, who haven't assimilated as being part of the same people.
There are several people living in a country or state. They don't have to become one people, but they still have to abide by the common rules and laws.
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