I have seen a lot of old Esperanto speakers in Facebook use the word samideano when adressing to other Esperanto speakers. Why are they using this word, and how an Esperanto-speaker is a member of a same idea?
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It's a reference to la interna ideo, which Zamenhof described in this way.
La interna ideo of Esperanto, which is in no way obligatory for any individual Esperantist, but which [...] is and always should be key during Esperanto Congresses, is this: with a neutral linguistic foundation, that barriers between peoples be removed and that people become accustomed to seeing others simply as people and as brothers.
(L. L. Zamenhof, 1912, translated by me)
