"gender neutral pronouns"

[ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET]

What about the words 'Motherland' and "Fatherland"??
Do they play a role in a language's selecting the right pronoun?
Did Germans ever use  she/her for the Vaterland?
Jules Levin
Los Angeles 

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