The Word is "boycott"

Word Power: The Word is "boycott" 

Irish Origen:

                The Irish Land Wars are the source of the introduction of a powerfully useful word into the English language.

              

                 In 1850 Irish persons formed the Tenant Right League in Ireland to demand reform to the land law of Ireland. It was a law not of democratic origin. This organization and demand was followed by about 40 years of unrest in Ireland as well as to some learning and reform. 
                

                The word in question is the surname of a landlord so disliked by his tenants that he was refused labor to harvest his crops, as well as refusal to service shops, laundries, and other facilities. The social excommunication of Mr. Boycott led to his name being used to describe it. Boycotts have worked well as nonvirulent protest measures. 
                

                Check out the the Home Rule League of Ireland online. Doing so could contribute to your political education. Then go on to check the Irish Land League. Doing so could add to your understanding of political organization. Check out Gandhi  on the use of resistance and organization to achieve social ends. Well reasoned and presented protests have been a powerful social power. The Irish National League may be interesting to check out, but may prove complicated by the source of your information. 
                   

As an educator:

                 Due to my background as an educator I feel the need to add, is that one thing you need to learn is that you are responsible for ruling yourself. In Ireland that has been called Home Rule. It does seem best to begin at home. You can blame your father, wife, mayor, or President, but that, I have found a waste of energy. Where you are concerned you are the authority and the boss, and the doing is yours to do. You will have your results.
               

                 We have a lot to learn about politics and our own history. History is how we learn what works and and what doesn't. It's mostly the experience of others, but we each have our own history. Politics can be called how we cooperate to get doings done.

Understanding and meaning:                    

                A instructive synonym for boycott is ostracize.

                An example of boycotting is the American boycott of  English goods during the American Revolution such as the Boston Tea Party. This was mostly the refusal to accept English goods, especially to buy them.

                So, to boycott, can refer to social or political action to initiate change.

                Boycotting may well thought of as organized and strategic as a campaign to protest by ostracization so as to initiate or maintain change.

                                                                                                RCS
 

"Nation" Is Related to Governance

Nation: the word            

               "Nation" was born from a word that meant "to be born'' came to mean "breed" or "stock." 

                  

                 It next came to mean ''that which has been born,'' that is ''a breed." But it soon came to refer to s species or race.

                "Way down yonder in the Indian Nation" is a refrain from an old song which got me to thinking as an America am I of a race or a racist, or both or neither? It seems that most Indian tribes fit the meaning of nation more fully than we do.

Race

                So according to the dictionaries, "nation" came to refer to a race of people.

            "A race of people" people implies a strong blood or genetic relationship.

History

                Our blood and our history seem to have strong effects upon us. A word's history is carried with it, much like your history is part of you. A word seems pretty bloodless, but once one gets into our mind it can get pretty bloody.

                Very recently in our history we started to use ''nationality'' and ''nation" in reference to our country of origin and meanings, if not become confused, certainly began to change for many of us. "Nation" has been taken over as a political/legal concept of nation as ''an organized territorial unit.'' by this notion the United States of America can be called a nation.

Webster dictionary

                My Webster dictionary uses the words birth and race as part of an ongoing part of the meaning of "nation." It goes on to say that nation refers to a group or aggregation of closely related persons. Closely related persons form a "we." How do we form a we? Can co-operation and communication do the job?

Culture

                A common culture forms a we. A culture is learned even though much of that learning is not consciously done. We can learn. It's possible to learn together.

Are we willing to learn together? I think that we create and maintain a more perfect union when we want to. It just takes some doing.

Community

                Another dictionary says that what we have come to call a community of people of one or more nationalities and possessing amore or less defined territory and government, is a nation. I can't remember the exact nature of a community just now. I does seem like this dictionary is trying to describe us. How are we describing ourselves these days? Dictionary compilers keep trying to give a realistic definition to a word we have twisted out of shape.

Language                

                Another modern dictionary tried this. "A nation is is a people, who share common customs, origins, history, and often language." This seems a good try at defining what many people now mean when they use the word, nation. This culture,  union.

Legal and Political Actuality

                Another more modern dictionary seems to lack heart and feels less congenial to me. It says, a nation is a rather large group of people under a single, usually independent government. Looking at the reality it may be a try at the actual reality, but it is not very attractive.

Country

                Well, many of us feel that we have a darn good country. We can be on our way to deciding or remembering who we are and what we are. A country seems an Ok start.

                

                Still, nation, does have a nice ring to it. Could the Navajo nation or Iceland be examples to take a look at. They may be good 

examples for nations, but not the right ones for us. 

                Thanks for reading. 

               Word Power to you.

                                                                                                rcs