I believe this use of "homeland" is new for us in the United States.  From what I read in the papers around a year ago, I understand "national security" was the first choice, but it was felt that this had been "overused," and there were negative connotations in that phrase.  I remember Reagan's "Peace through Strength" in the mid-1980s, and wondered what part of Germany, also what era, that phrase had come from.



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	I just paralleled foucault and o'brien in a termpaper - orwell, chomsky,

	jeremy bentham (the guy who thought up the panopticon foucault writes about

	in "discipline and punish"), a guy named victor klemperer in our "hometown"

	of dresden all wrote about the abuse of language for political ends

	(variants on totalitarianism) - while I can see that happening in the here

	and now (where does the "homeland" in "homeland security" come from? Do

	americans say "homeland" in any other contexts or is it a direct translation

	of the german "heimat"?), I'm wondering what other "major cultural change"

	we might now be undergoing which might explain the evidence given in the

	examples/discussion...

	

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	Good analogy, you know major cultural change is highly related to the

	evolution of language.