blood and soil
Ancestry and homeland
Blood and soil is a nationalist slogan asserting that ethnic identity (blood) and ancestral homeland (soil) form the basis of a nation.
The phrase translates German *Blut und Boden*, a central concept in Nazi ideology that tied racial purity to agrarian rootedness.
It has resurfaced among white nationalist movements: Protesters chanted "blood and soil" while carrying torches.
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- ancestral heritageLegacy from one's forebears
- ancestral landInherited family territory
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- master raceClaimed superior human group
Nazi ideology · fascism · ancestral worship · ethnonationalism · traditionalism · agrarianism · Nordic mythology · Lebensraum · cultural nationalism · national identity · homeland · ethnic homeland · racial ideology · lineage · ground · heritage preservation · ethnic · roots
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- far rightfascism, neo-Nazism, neofascism, white supremacy, Nazism
- Ultranationalismultranationalism, jingoism, chauvinism, ethnonationalism, nativism
- national mythsfounding myth, founding myths, national origin, origin story, origin stories
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
- origin mythscreation story, flood myth, first man, first woman, cosmic egg
blood and soilsocial contract
Agreement exchanging freedom for order
pluralism · naturalization · melting pot · multiculturalism · civic identity
blood and soilcosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
universalism · globalism · egalitarianism · Enlightenment values · world citizenship
blood and soilrootlessness
State of having no anchor
diaspora · nomadism · transnationalism · deterritorialization · placelessness
soil, blood, bloody, bleeding, bloodline, bloodshed, blooded, Bloodhound, bloodthirsty