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As a non-USian, is the Homeland Security (Newspeak!) under the Justice Dept, at least?
by lomnakkus 9y ago
As a non-USian, is the Homeland Security (Newspeak!) under the Justice Dept, at least?
- nerdponx 9y agoNo, it's an independent, top-level cabinet position. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice are "peers", if you will. I'm not sure it's entirely newspeak. If you look at the list of departments that were gathered together to form DHS [0], it does make some sense to have them all in the same organization. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
- forapurpose 9y agoThe word "homeland" is propaganda-ish. Other department names are simply descriptive, such as Treasury, State, Interior, Veterans Affairs, etc. If named normally, it would have been something like 'Domestic Security'..
- arca_vorago 9y agoPersonally I think the DoD should go back to it's original name, the department of war, and then homeland should take dod.
- GCU-Empiricist 9y agoNo it's a Federal executive agency with a cabinet level Secretary reporting to the president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_th... DHS was made after 9-11 in 2001 by rolling a lot of other agencies together with a new overarching executive agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> USian Is this a statement thing?
- rainbowmverse 9y agoI say it sometimes and I live here. Nothing wrong with it.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoIt's mostly a disambiguation thing, although it's definitely more popular in some circles than others. A similar term sometimes seen in more formal contexts is "US-American". "American" is sometimes construed to include all of North, Central, and South America, predominantly in Spanish and Portuguese languages (e.g. the Organization of American States / Organización de los Estados Americanos / Organización de los Estados Americanos), as opposed to modern English where the usual collective term is "the Americas".
- lomnakkus 9y agoWay too late, but it wasn't meant as any sort of value judgement. It's just an anglified états-unien (and similar in many languages).