Diaspora

Word DIASPORA
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Pronunciations /daɪˈæspəɹə/

Definitions and meanings of "Diaspora"

What do we mean by diaspora?

The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.).

(by extension) Any similar dispersion.

(collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.

The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.

Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.

1. A dispersion of people from their homeland. 2. A local metal band from Atlanta Georgia. Urban Dictionary

A community of people who do not inhabit their homelands. Usually a group moved enmass for a period of time in history which now only immigrate in small numbers. Urban Dictionary

A new social network content like facebook, created by 4 NY university students. But unlike facebook, it's the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. The service starts in September, 2010. Urban Dictionary

Noun, countable the spreading of Jewish ethnocentrism to other areas Urban Dictionary

A political vote in the Eurovision Song Contest. When immigrants vote for their country of origin because they want to support their country regardless of the quality of the song. Urban Dictionary

A sexual practice of fucking somebody elses daugher in front of her dad while being a diasporant. Urban Dictionary

Skuffles of hatred and culture clash between different members of a diaspora. (ie: Black Americans vs Black British etc etc) It is rooted in xenophobia and ignorance. Urban Dictionary

The brain-drain science & tech intelluctuals & experts scattered around the globe who get called by their countries. (optional) brain gain...again, India? Urban Dictionary

"People" from the superwholock Fandom who are not sitting around in tumblr and are scattered around social media, living amongst normal human beings Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe the Faroese singer Reiley due to his hair and his large tiktok fan base. Urban Dictionary

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The word "diaspora" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As far as India is concerned, the term diaspora is comparatively a new application. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Arab women living in diaspora have hard questions to answer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the Palestinian diaspora is perhaps even more disproportionately people with individuals whose property was stolen by the state of Israel in 1948. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let the minority diaspora from the GOP continue ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the Palestinian diaspora is perhaps even more disproportionately people with individuals whose property was stolen by the state of Israel in1948. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Lehman diaspora is something that hasn't been seen, at this scale, since Drexel Burnham Lambert was forced into bankruptcy in 1990. ❋ David Weidner (2010)

I do not know where your forebears come from in diaspora terms, but my Muslim forebears came from Andalusia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Irish diaspora is using LDS microfilm from these LDS centres around the world and making the information available to us all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Economic migrants make up 91 percent of global migration, and the largest diaspora is of the Chinese … ❋ Unknown (2008)

Economic migrants make up 91 percent of global migration, and the largest diaspora is of the Chinese, with an estimated 55 million living outside China, followed by 22 million Indians. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While Jews can easily relate to the definition of the word diaspora as "any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture," Jews don't own the word. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

Despite pronouncements that Jews were "parasitic" on other societies [Hitler], they were in diaspora – they had no home other than the homes they made in other natiions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is when Africans are in diaspora that they shed being Igbo or Kikuyi or Guva and become African. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Third, African medical professionals in diaspora have been very helpful in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The displacement and ‘lostness’ that being in diaspora create could lead to connectivity and linkages. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In fact, those in diaspora are able to construct new identities that could sustain them in the midst of the entropy created by their being away from the land. ❋ Unknown (2007)

African Christians in diaspora could be the needed link between the fastest growing Church (the African Church) in the world with the global Church. ❋ Unknown (2007)

1. The [Armenians] in America are a [diaspora]. 2. There was a huge [mosh pit] when I saw [Diaspora] in concert in Atlanta. ❋ Pat (2004)

[Australians], [Americans] and [South Africans] are the diaspora of England. ❋ Waffle (2004)

A: [Have you heard about] new [social network] called diaspora? B: Yeah, I might quit [facebook] and join that instead. ❋ Clashthunder (2010)

[Miss] [Rubinstein] has [taught] us the meaning of diaspora. ❋ Amamo-chan (2006)

[Turkey's] [high score] in 2007 was mainly due to diaspora voting in France, Germany, Switzerland, [Belgium], the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. ❋ Tamaki (2007)

Man [you should] have seen her [father's] face while i was [giving] her the diaspora cuck ❋ Seiyo (2021)

[Fuck] diaspora wars. ❋ FoundationalBlackAmerican (2022)

The [conference] stressed on many issues , but focused mainly [on the brain] [diaspora] option and the 'leaky pipeline' problem of PhDers leaving science. ❋ Hytham_hammer (2005)

Jim: when on instagram, I saw a couple of [fucktards] from the [superwholock diaspora] Sam: [dear God] ❋ Your Big Gay ○w○ (2021)

*[Searches] up "Korean Diaspora" on [google]* Why is [Reiley] there? ❋ ___Drifty (2023)

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