Diaspora

How To Use Diaspora In A Sentence

• 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
• He painted Avlekete, the Fon spirit of the sea, outside, next to the wall of juxtaposed African and African Diaspora Vodun symbols.
• Or it may be the removal of any self-consciousness that can often accompany public expression of Jewishness in the diaspora.
• Could not Paul have experienced, particularly in the diaspora, a Judaism so set upon maintaining its boundary markers, and so proud of them, that the markers became ends in themselves?
• What it can boast is a plethora, a diaspora, a minestrone of regional cuisines. Jay Weston: Jaywalking in L.A. - News and Gossip of the Restaurant World
• Palestinians in the diaspora risk losing "their entitlement to equal representation ... their ability to vocalise their views, to participate in matters of national governance, including the formation and political identity of the state, and to exercise the right of return. Palestinian state could leave millions of refugees with no voice at UN
• WT 5 BZ : The Jewish Diaspora in modern China started in the second half of the 19 th century.
• The word complementarity was coined in 1998 when Sarkisian's predecessor, Robert Kocharian, was elected president to describe the country's policy of staying friends with its military ally, Russia, and the United States, which has a large Armenian diaspora as well as Europe and Iran. Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
• Like Sholom Aleichem, who made his way from Russia to Switzerland and then emigrated to America during World War I, Theodore Bikel amassed his own share of frequent flyer Diaspora miles -- starting out in Vienna, escaping the Holocaust by traveling to Israel (then Palestine), then on to London and finally settling in the United States. Thane Rosenbaum: Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel
• Whereas the traditional Jews of the diaspora were frail, the New Jews were to be physically strong.