diasporas

Noun

diaspora (plural diasporas or diasporae or diasporai)

1. (collective) The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
   • The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
2. (broadly, informal) Jews outside of the land of Israel.
3. The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
   • Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
4. Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
   • Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages1988, Joseph Foley, New Englishes: the case of Singapore, page 1

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