It seemed like a simple suggestion.
Ms Kristin Rose-Mohring, the equal opportunities officer for the German Family Ministry, in a recent newsletter, proposed that the word "fatherland" in her country's national anthem be replaced with the gender-neutral "homeland" - and in that same vein, that a line about people striving "brotherly" together might be rephrased as "courageously."
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