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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Phrase</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/God%27s_Own_Country_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="God's Own Country (disambiguation)">God's Own Country (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p> "<b>God's Own Country</b>" is a phrase meaning an area, region or place supposedly favoured by God. </p><p>While its origins can be traced to various locations, the phrase has gained widespread recognition as a moniker for the Indian state of Kerala and, to a lesser extent, New Zealand. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Australia">Australia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the phrase "God's own country" was often used to describe the country in the early 1900s, but it appears to have gradually fallen out of favour.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase "God's Country" is often used to describe <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Sutherland_Shire" title="Sutherland Shire">Sutherland Shire</a> in southern <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brazil">Brazil</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The idea of "God's own country", worded as "<i>Deus é brasileiro</i>" (Portuguese: "<i>God is Brazilian</i>"), is a common trope in Brazilian culture to inspire optimism and point out the country has vast resources but faces few natural disasters nor international conflict. It is referenced by politicians<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and artworks, as in the movie <i><a href="/wiki/God_Is_Brazilian" title="God Is Brazilian">God Is Brazilian</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="England">England</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When used in reference to <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, "God's own country" refers to the legend that as a boy <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> visited England with his great uncle, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea" title="Joseph of Arimathea">Joseph of Arimathea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The event itself inspired the musical prelude to <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Milton:_A_Poem_in_Two_Books" title="Milton: A Poem in Two Books">Milton</a></i>, the piece "<a href="/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time" title="And did those feet in ancient time">And did those feet in ancient time</a>", also known as "Jerusalem", which has become an unofficial <a href="/wiki/National_anthem_of_England" title="National anthem of England">anthem of England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poem asks if Jesus did visit England in ancient times, and in so doing create the <a href="/wiki/New_Jerusalem" title="New Jerusalem">New Jerusalem</a>, or heaven in England.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surrey">Surrey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Surrey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another first usage of the term by Edward du Bois was in a poem describing the English county of <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> in 1839.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase was also used in its more literal meaning to refer to <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a>, in a poem by Elizabeth Harcourt Rolls Mitchell in 1857.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Yorkshire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The phrase has been used to describe <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, a region of northern England.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term "God's Own County" has also been used.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="India">India</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kerala">Kerala</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Kerala"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Kerala" title="Tourism in Kerala">Tourism in Kerala</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg/220px-Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg/330px-Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg/440px-Kerala_God%27s_Own_Country_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="223" /></a><figcaption>The official logo of Kerala Tourism</figcaption></figure> <p>“God’s Own Country’ is the tagline of <a href="/wiki/Kerala_Tourism" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerala Tourism">Kerala Tourism</a> which was coined by Walter Mendez, the creative director of an Indian advertising agency in 1989 at the request of the Tourism Department, <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kerala" title="Government of Kerala">Government of Kerala</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This was used by agencies to showcase Kerala’s natural beauty and not-so-explored places across the state. </p><p>Kerala Tourism has won several awards for its innovative tourism campaign. Each of them depicted God’s Own Country in a new light, ensuring that the tagline continues to be associated with Kerala.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The description of Kerala as "God's own country" can additionally be traced to the event known as Thrippadidanam in 1749, the then ruler <a href="/wiki/Marthanda_Varma" title="Marthanda Varma">Marthanda Varma</a>, Maharaja of Travancore, decided to "donate" his realm to Padmanabha (Vishnu) and thereafter rule as the deity's "vicegerent" (Sri Padmanabha Dasa). ('Dasa' meaning Servant or Slave.).<sup id="cite_ref-Chaitanya1983_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaitanya1983-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Aswathy_Thirunal_1998_168–170,_179–180,_595–602_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aswathy_Thirunal_1998_168–170,_179–180,_595–602-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mythology">Mythology</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Apart from various legends of the origin of the Kerala, the slogan alludes to the variety of faiths in the state: <a href="/wiki/Hindus" title="Hindus">Hindus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhists" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhists">Buddhists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jains" class="mw-redirect" title="Jains">Jains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Parsis" title="Parsis">Parsis</a> (<a href="/wiki/Zoroastrians" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrians">Zoroastrians</a>) have coexisted harmoniously for centuries, as attested by the mishmash of <a href="/wiki/Temples" class="mw-redirect" title="Temples">temples</a>, <a href="/wiki/Towers" class="mw-redirect" title="Towers">towers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spires" class="mw-redirect" title="Spires">spires</a> and <a href="/wiki/Synagogues" class="mw-redirect" title="Synagogues">synagogues</a>. </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Matsya_Purana" title="Matsya Purana">Matsya Purana</a></i>, one of the oldest of the 18 <a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> uses the <a href="/wiki/Malaya_Mountains" title="Malaya Mountains">Malaya</a> Mountains of <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>) as the setting for the story of <a href="/wiki/Matsya" title="Matsya">Matsya</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Dashavatara" title="Dashavatara">incarnation</a> of Vishnu, and <a href="/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)" title="Manu (Hinduism)">Manu</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)" title="Manu (Hinduism)">first man</a> and the <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">king</a> of the region.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These <a href="/wiki/Puranic" class="mw-redirect" title="Puranic">Puranic</a> accounts portray <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> as "God’s own country", or the land favoured by <a href="/wiki/God_in_Hinduism" title="God in Hinduism">God</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another character from the <i><a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a></i> associated with Kerala is <a href="/wiki/Mahabali" title="Mahabali">Mahabali</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Asura" title="Asura">Asura</a> and a prototypical just king. According to regional belief, Mahabali ruled Kerala with great justice and was beloved by his people.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>However, the gods grew jealous of Mahabali's growing fame and power, and feared he was becoming too powerful. They begged Lord Vishnu to stop Mahabali. Vishnu incarnated as <a href="/wiki/Vamana" title="Vamana">Vamana</a> and, playing on Mahabali's benevolence, tricked <a href="/wiki/Mahabali" title="Mahabali">Mahabali</a> into giving up his kingdom, and exiled him to <a href="/wiki/Patala" title="Patala">Patala</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Underworld" title="Underworld">netherworld</a>. Vishnu, seeing the devotion of Mahabali, blessed him to be the <a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a> of the next <a href="/wiki/Manvantara" title="Manvantara">Manvantara</a> and granted him his request that once a year, during the <a href="/wiki/Onam" title="Onam">Onam</a> festival, <a href="/wiki/Mahabali" title="Mahabali">Mahabali</a> could return to his kingdom to visit his people.<sup id="cite_ref-Rinehart2004_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rinehart2004-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is said that Vishnu guards Mahabali's kingdom as a mark of respect for his virtues.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kerala (Chera-nadu) is prominently referenced in the Tamil Epic <a href="/wiki/Cilappatikaram" title="Cilappatikaram">Cilappatikaram</a>. The Heroine <a href="/wiki/Kannagi" title="Kannagi">Kannagi</a> after suffering innumerable injustices travels over the hills to Kerala, where the Gods and Goddesses receive her and take her to heaven. The deity at the <a href="/wiki/Kodungallur_Bhagavathy_Temple" title="Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple">Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple</a> is worshipped as Kannagi Amma. </p><p>Another legend, from the 17th century <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a> work <i><a href="/wiki/Keralolpathi" title="Keralolpathi">Keralolpathi</a></i>, tells that the lands of <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> were recovered from the sea by the axe-wielding warrior-sage <a href="/wiki/Parasurama" class="mw-redirect" title="Parasurama">Parashurama</a>, the sixth <a href="/wiki/Avatar" title="Avatar">avatar</a> of the deity <a href="/wiki/God_Vishnu" class="mw-redirect" title="God Vishnu">Vishnu</a> (hence, Kerala is also called Parashurama Kshetram; 'The Land of Parashurama'). According to legend, Parashurama threw his axe across the sea, and the water receded as far as it reached. This new area of land extended from <a href="/wiki/Gokarna,_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Gokarna, India">Gokarna</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kanyakumari" title="Kanyakumari">Kanyakumari</a>. The land which rose from sea was filled with salt and was unsuitable for habitation; so Parashurama invoked the <a href="/wiki/Nagaraja" title="Nagaraja">snake-king</a> <a href="/wiki/Vasuki" title="Vasuki">Vasuki</a>, who spat the holy poison and converted the soil into fertile lush green land. Out of respect, <a href="/wiki/Vasuki" title="Vasuki">Vasuki</a> and all snakes were appointed as protectors and guardians of the land. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Zealand">New Zealand</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest recorded use of the phrase as applied to <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> was as the title of a poem about New Zealand written by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bracken" title="Thomas Bracken">Thomas Bracken</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was published in a book of his poems in 1890, and again in 1893 in a book entitled <i>Lays and Lyrics: God's Own Country and Other Poems.</i><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> God's Own Country as a phrase was often used and popularised by New Zealand's longest serving prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Richard_John_Seddon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard John Seddon">Richard John Seddon</a>. He last quoted it on 10 June 1906 when he sent a telegram to the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victorian</a> premier, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bent" title="Thomas Bent">Thomas Bent</a>, the day before leaving <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a> to return home to New Zealand. "Just leaving for God's own country," he wrote. He never made it, dying the next day on the ship <i>Oswestry Grange</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bracken's <i>God's Own Country</i> is less well known internationally than <i><a href="/wiki/God_Defend_New_Zealand" title="God Defend New Zealand">God Defend New Zealand</a></i>, which he published in 1876. The latter poem, set to music by <a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Woods" title="John Joseph Woods">John Joseph Woods</a>, was declared the country's national hymn in 1940, and made the second national anthem of New Zealand along with <i><a href="/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen" class="mw-redirect" title="God Save the Queen">God Save the Queen</a></i> in 1977. </p><p>In recent times, the form <b>Godzone</b> on its own has been used informally of New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The phrase later found sporadic use to describe several <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> regions. Most known is the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan" title="Upper Peninsula of Michigan">Upper Peninsula of Michigan</a>. It is currently used to describe South Boston. It was also used by the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate army</a> to describe parts of <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> in the 1860s.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase was also used to describe <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> in the 1860s,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by <a href="/wiki/Clement_Laird_Vallandigham" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement Laird Vallandigham">Clement Laird Vallandigham</a> to describe the land of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> plains.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of these remain widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> propaganda minister <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a> sarcastically mocked the US as "<i>Aus Gottes eigenem Land</i>" (From God's Own Country) in an essay that appeared in the German newspaper <a href="/wiki/Das_Reich_(newspaper)" title="Das Reich (newspaper)"><i>Das Reich</i></a> on 9 August 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goebbels ridiculed the United States as a young land that lacked culture, education and history in contrast with Germany. In 1943, the Nazis published an <a href="/wiki/Anti-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-American">anti-American</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> propaganda book written by <i>Erwin Berghaus</i> called "<i>USA – nackt!: Bilddokumente aus Gottes eigenem Land</i>" ("USA naked! Photo documents from God's own country") which also mockingly characterized the US with the phrase.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several modern German newspapers such as <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Welt" title="Die Welt">Die Welt</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Tagesspiegel" title="Der Tagesspiegel">Der Tagesspiegel</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Zeit" title="Die Zeit">Die Zeit</a></i>, have also used the phrase "<i>Gottes eigenes Land</i>" ("God's own country") to criticize American culture and society.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=God%27s_Own_Country&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Zimbabwe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The phrase "God's own country" was heard during the 1970s in <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Rhodesia" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Rhodesia" title="Southern Rhodesia">Southern Rhodesia</a>), where most people perceived the land as beautiful despite the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War" title="Rhodesian Bush War">Bush War</a> of the time. Evidence of the phrase being used earlier in reference to Rhodesia is found in <i>Chartered Millions: Rhodesia and the Challenge to the British Commonwealth</i> by John Hobbis Harris, published 1920 by Swarthmore Press (refer to page 27). 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