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On the meaning of the word "Homeland" in nationalist thinking "The homeland is the essential spiritual and physical family that unites the land of the ancestors and maintains its traditions. The village, the home country, are not the homeland. The motherland excludes both the idea of LOCAL as well as the idea of UNIVERSAL. The mind must not try to delimit "the homeland" to be delimited by the territory of a certain state... the motherland is also not a coalition of special interest groups, or some solidarity of civil or military adventurers who are in search of gains or glory from someone else. The motherland pre-exists, like the race; we commune in the motherland by the heart... it exists to higher degrees and does not fit into a precise framework of the state. It starts with the territory, but is beyond just the Breton borders, to places far away. Some shores across the Channel are for us, a little bit of motherland. Thus Brittany, Alsace, Flanders are homelands within other larger, more crowded homelands: Celtia, Germania" Stur Magazine: A Publication of the Breton Nationalists, No. 1 & 2, 1 July–1 October 1934.