There are terms of engagement and connection to the homeland, namely citizenship, loyalty and belonging. In your opinion, what is the relationship between them? What is more comprehensive? What is the most important to the homeland (Country)?
Citizenship means the position or status of being a citizen of a particular country; belonging means have the right personal or social qualities to be a member of a particular group; and loyalty means a strong feeling of support or allegiance.
Being a citizen of a country, everybody should have feeling of belonging to that country and must be loyal to the rules and regulations of the country.
S/he should think his/ her country as 'own' and should have some affectionate feeling to the country.
Citizenship, active social membership, and solidarity generate rights, and these rights often provide the basis for an assortment of claims. Belongingness and loyalty are integral part of citizenship.
In my opinion, the concept of citizenship is the connection of the individual to the place where he was born (where he represents his homeland), where the individual relates to this place and its heritage, culture, language and customs.
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation. Loyalty, in general use, is a devotion and faithfulness to a nation, cause, philosophy, country, group, or person. Philosophers disagree on what can be an object of loyalty, as some argue that loyalty is strictly interpersonal and only another human being can be the object of loyalty. The definition of loyalty in law and political science is the fidelity of an individual to a nation, either one's nation of birth, or one's declared home nation by oath (naturalization). Belonging is a sense of fitting in or feeling like you are an important member of a group. A really close family gives each of its members a strong sense of belonging. When you belong, you are an official part of a group ("She belongs to the French club") or you're compatible with certain people or suited to a specific place ("I just belong in nature"). A feeling of belonging describes this sense of truly fitting or meshing, especially with friends, family members, or other sympathetic folks. [Wikipedia & https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/belonging]
I am not sure there are any other people besides us, Tzadokites, and the Jewish people who can answer this question in a way that that no one else can. I cannot say about the Jewish people, but for us, Tzadokites, all the three words mean the same thing. This is what is taught by our HaKham and this is what we read in Sefer Hakhamim. Shalom.
Citizenship implies membership of a nation- state whether by birth, parentage, registry among others. Citizenship however is not complete without the citizens concern having a sense of belonging. When people are excluded socially, politically and economically, they can not hold on to the claim of citizenship. Their loyalty to the nation-state also becomes suspect.
Citizen are backbone of the country so to say they are the foundation of the nation it is the citizen who have a great responsibility to see that their country due to the responsibility of the citizen may make an ideal nation .Citizen have the moral responsibility for the franchise & they have to remain totally impartial & evaluate the member for which the citizen may feel that they have played the part under the loyalty with moral code & ethics for fulfilling their responsibility as a citizen .
Citizenship conveys a number of obligations, especially in democracies. To enjoy the advantages bestowed on individuals by a state, it was required that citizens should fight for the state, pay taxes and operate fully as part of its community. Belonging is passive in nature and suggests identification with a group and more dependence on it as a citizen can opt out and join another state (as I've recently done).
Loyalty generally refers to identifying and supporting the state (unto death often) at times or crisis or conflict: the individual effectively conceives the state as a personification to which it bestows certain qualities and affects.
A person may naturally by birth be a citizen of a country and belong to it but being loyal to one's country is not a common feature of every citizenry but a true statesman who is dedicated to the development of his or her country.
The concept of citizenship is the connection of the individual to the place where he was born, he is his homeland, and the individual relates to the country and belongs to it, its heritage, its culture, its language and its customs. In sociology, citizenship is a relationship between the individual and the state. This relationship is determined by the law applied in the state according to its system,
There are people who belong to the country because they are born to him but unfortunately they have no loyalty to him, and vice versa that there are individuals who were not born in the country but have a large affiliation to him. Therefore should not be confused between the terms of loyalty and belonging in the logical interpretation and actual application.
Loyalty is a broader and broader concept of belonging. Whoever says that I am proud and proud that I belong to this country, this individual has an affiliation and loyalty to him, unlike the one who is born in a country and grows up in it, learns and works in it and then finds him not proud of him and does not cherish his loyalty to him. But has only affiliation. The preservation of the entity and cohesion of society is very important.
"Between the individual and the state" there may be a strange relation. 📷
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. So long as defeat meant the loss of independence, or some other result generally held to be undesirable, the precautions against defeat had to be serious. Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. Moreover, to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past. Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practiced today would have been impossible. War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.”
― George Orwell, 1984 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10279-in-past-ages-a-war-almost-by-definition-was-something?fbclid=IwAR1n7raoywLhHfgxByDwFCGdRd7f4TBczTBlZX4If7N0fuTtbi7ylwT7EH4
Citizenship: A place in this land where I was born, raised, raised, lived and became a citizen of that country. Affiliation: A general concept of private entities in the sense that they belong to a group, party, religion, denomination, tribe or group of people. Loyalty: devote all your concerns to those affiliations in one or more countries.
Citizenship and belonging is for everyone but loyalty is for special people. ... The concept of citizenship is the connection of the individual to the place where he was born, he is his homeland, and the individual relates to the country and belongs to it, its heritage, its culture, its language and its customs.