The phrase
"mother country" refers to the country where a person was born or where their ancestors originally come from. It symbolizes a strong bond and sense of belonging to that specific nation.
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- Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB and the author of Mother Country, a memoir, among other books. (lrb.co.uk)
- Europe's troubles certainly haven't helped Fiat Chrysler (fcau); the Italian carmaker gets the majority of its European sales from its beleaguered mother country. (fortune.com)
- Marilynne Robinson's more theoretical Mother Country is a distributist text that avoids the language of distributism all together, but helpfully shows how both Adam Smith and Karl Marx could fit into the distributive framework. (firstthings.com)
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