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The American Czech and Slovak Association (ACSA), originally American Czechoslovak Society (ACS), was a Washington, D.C.–based national organization with a mission to facilitate contacts and cooperation between people, institutions and organizations in the United States and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and assist in the transition to democracy and market economy in Czechoslovakia after ...
Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near Srbac, 1934. The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.
Communists took control of Czechoslovakia's government in 1948, leading to a mass migration of Slovak intelligentsia and post-war political figures. Another wave of Slovak immigration was fueled by the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet response to the cultural and political liberalization of the Prague Spring .
The Czech American community mobilized massively to help in the searches for the girl and support her family, and it gained much sympathy from the general American public. While most Czech-Americans are white, some are people of color or are Latino/Hispanic. A small group of Black Czech-Americans of Ethiopian descent lives in Baltimore. [14]
Pages in category "Czech diaspora by country" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct; Developers;
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Czech Mexicans checo-mexicanos; Total population; 537 Czech Republic-born residents (2019) [1] Unknown number of Mexicans of Czech descent: Regions with significant populations; Mexico City: Languages; Spanish (Mexican Spanish) · Czech: Religion; Roman Catholicism: Related ethnic groups; Czech diaspora
Tamil diaspora – a demographic group of Tamil people of Indian or Sri Lankan origin who have settled in other parts of the world. Tibetan diaspora – a group of Tibetan people who left Tibet to be with the 14th Dalai Lama after he went into exile in 1959. Most live in India and Nepal, but some live in the United States and Europe.