Definitions
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- noun The
dispersion of theJews among theGentiles after the Captivity. - noun Any similar dispersion.
- noun A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of
Israel . - noun The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
- noun Any dispersion of an originally
homogeneous entity , such as alanguage orculture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities.
Analysis 2010
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As far as India is concerned, the term diaspora is comparatively a new application.
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Arab women living in diaspora have hard questions to answer.
Global Voices in English » Arab Diaspora: Shall I Marry a Non-Arab? 2009
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And the Palestinian diaspora is perhaps even more disproportionately people with individuals whose property was stolen by the state of Israel in 1948.
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Finally, the West Indian diaspora is represented by “Zagriyen. fr” which has garnered only 9 votes - on par with Bondamanjak, a socially and politically-oriented Martinican blog, whose vote tally is also 9 at the time of this posting.
Global Voices in English » French Caribbean: “Les Scoops d’Or” Competition 2009
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The safey of the Jew in diaspora has varied from place to place at any given time, and from time to time within any given place.
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Let the minority diaspora from the GOP continue ...
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat 2009
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And the Palestinian diaspora is perhaps even more disproportionately people with individuals whose property was stolen by the state of Israel in1948.
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The Lehman diaspora is something that hasn't been seen, at this scale, since Drexel Burnham Lambert was forced into bankruptcy in 1990.
Post-Lehman, It's the Parts, Not the Sum David Weidner 2010
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I do not know where your forebears come from in diaspora terms, but my Muslim forebears came from Andalusia.
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