Ok, looking at that page I understand now. That is not what it means to us. This is the English page
In the anglosphere (UK included, from what I’ve seen on tv), deportation doesn’t have positive connotations, but it has ambiguous connotations. It’s a normal word used on the news everyday, and has been for decades. If anything, it has similar connotations to getting a prison sentence - there’s even an implication of some kind of wrongdoing on the deportee
With the context of what you linked, it seems like in the Netherlands the word has appropriate weight. But if you say the Nazis deported Jews, people in the US will interpret that to mean you’re downplaying or denying the Holocaust. It’s the terminology used by neo-Nazis
The terms we would use are forced migration or ethic cleansing, we don’t really have a specific word for it until it evolves into full blown genocide
Ok, looking at that page I understand now. That is not what it means to us. This is the English page
In the anglosphere (UK included, from what I’ve seen on tv), deportation doesn’t have positive connotations, but it has ambiguous connotations. It’s a normal word used on the news everyday, and has been for decades. If anything, it has similar connotations to getting a prison sentence - there’s even an implication of some kind of wrongdoing on the deportee
With the context of what you linked, it seems like in the Netherlands the word has appropriate weight. But if you say the Nazis deported Jews, people in the US will interpret that to mean you’re downplaying or denying the Holocaust. It’s the terminology used by neo-Nazis
The terms we would use are forced migration or ethic cleansing, we don’t really have a specific word for it until it evolves into full blown genocide