dolphin you probably cannot distinguish between the person who gave you birth and the place of your birth. The place of birth is a man made restriction as far as border of land while a mother is someone who gave you birth by keeping you in her womb for 9 months. There is no comparision to mother and place of birth. You may be brainwashed by things like mother and motherland blah blah but motherland is nothing but the ground where people have put border around calling their country. My motherland is the earth. I am not restricted by any borders in my head and I feel sorry for narrow minded people like you who can't think beyond their own restrictive borders in your brain that somebody else have set for you.