Small homeland is a significant image for the formation of patriotism

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:41

In our time, people are increasingly becoming supporters of cosmopolitan views that were previously condemned. However, now one can also notice a fairly clear division in the field of worldview, which concerns the origins.

Different opinions

For some, not only a large, but also a small homeland is of great importance. This is a patriotic attitude to the land, to one's country, to the city and district in which a person was born.

Others do not have such affection and consider the whole world or the place where they happened to live by the will of fate to be their home. It is not our task to determine which views are better. That which is based on feelings, on perception and, by and large, depends on the surrounding people, on upbringing, is weakly amenable to rational comprehension. But just a small homeland is a native city, district, courtyard, that is, places with which we are emotionally connected. This is a school and neighbors, these are favorite corners - parks, alleys, groves, where a person felt comfortable, where he dreamed of the future, where he was formed as a person.

What is a small homeland?

One can argue for a long time about how much the surrounding nature and environment influence the character and attitudes. For most of us, a small homeland is a place that evokes nostalgic memories, which is always associated with home, with family. With something that is perceived positively, with a touch of sadness. A small homeland is both an object of concern and an object of human affection. When cleaning the yard or developing our hometown, we show love for this place. And this is much more effective (also in terms of education) than abstract arguments about patriotism and why a large and small homeland should always evoke love and worship. Should not. And even more so, it cannot become a political bargaining chip. But, as the poet said, "love for father's coffins" always resonates in a person. Patriotism is a feeling that is formed in childhood and which then becomes part of the worldview.

The concept of "small motherland", although it is firmly associated with a specific territory, with a certain corner of the globe, is much more strongly determined by the surrounding people. Whether a person develops a sense of home, attachment to him, depends on the family and parents. In addition, personal responsibility for the world around is also formed in childhood. If a person is well, comfortable, if he is accustomed by adults to the fact that a lot also depends on his activities, he will take care to preserve and equip this small corner of the earth. For him, a small homeland isnot just the place where he was born and grew up. It evokes nostalgic memories, an aching feeling of sadness, a desire to care and improve. For him, the proverb "Where he was born, there he fit" is relevant.

But the formation of an emotional attitude to a small homeland for each of us takes place in our own way. Some do not imagine life away from home, from relatives. Others, on the contrary, seek to escape from the environment where they grew up, leave and settle in a new place. For them, home is where people close to them in spirit are, and not where they were born. However, we can safely say that in patriotic feelings, the small homeland is the most significant image. Unlike the abstract concept of the fatherland in general, which can be formed with the help of literary works, films, folk culture, for each of us it is associated with family, childhood friends, favorite places.