diaspora
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Noun — A population that has spread out from its original homeland, and the dispersal itself — as in the African, Irish or Jewish diaspora.
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Etymology
From Greek "diaspora," a scattering or dispersion, from "speirein" (to sow). It was first used of the dispersal of the Jewish people and later broadened to any community living away from its ancestral home.
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What does diaspora mean?
A community living outside the land its people came from, and the process of that scattering. It implies an ongoing connection to the homeland rather than simple emigration.
Is diaspora capitalised?
Lower case for the general sense. It is often capitalised when referring specifically to the Jewish Diaspora as a historical event.