What's the meaning of this song sentence?
There's a song called "Borders" by M.I.A. that starts like this:
Freedom, 'I'dom, 'Me'dom
Where's your 'We'dom?
This world needs a brand new 'Re'dom
What does this means??
Thanks!
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What's the meaning of these song sentence lyrics?
There's a song called "Borders" by M.I.A. that starts like this:Freedom, 'I'dom, 'Me'dom
Where's your 'We'dom?
This world needs a brand new 'Re'dom
What does this means??
Thanks!
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The first line criticizes self-centered attitudes. -dom is a noun suffix (for example, freedom is the state of being free), so it's like saying "I-ness" and "Me-ness".
The second line asks why self-centered people don't talk about "us", humanity in general, but here she's using the pronoun We because it rhymes with me and free.
'Re'dom isn't 100% clear, I interpret it as meaning "start over again" because the prefix re- means to do something again (for example, remake [something] means to make [something] again).
Basically it's about getting people to think of ourselves as a group (all humans) instead of ourselves as individuals.
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El sufijo inglés -dom es como el sufijo -dad/tad en español (libertar-libertad), así que ´I/Me´dom significa ´Yo/me´dad, y ´We´dom significa ´Nosotros´dad. El prefijo re- tiene el mismo significado en inglés que en español, así que ´Re´dom significa ´Re´dad.
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