Friday, July 13, 2012

diaspora

A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion") is "the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "a people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".
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