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The term διασπορά (diaspora) hence meant "scattering". [27] Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration to America following the Great Famine in Ireland. There is confusion over the exact process of derivation from these Ancient Greek verbs to the concept of diaspora. Many cite Thucydides (5th century BC) as the first to use the word.
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Jewish diaspora – in its historical use, refers to the period between the Roman occupation and subsequent deportation of Jews from Judea from 70 CE to the Middle Ages, to the re-establishment of Israel in 1948. In modern use, the 'Diaspora' refers to ethnic Jews who continue to live outside of Israel.
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The essential difference between pan-nationalism and diaspora nationalism is that members of a diaspora, by definition, are no longer resident in their national or ethnic homeland. In some instances, 'Diaspora' refers to a dispersal of a people from a (real or imagined) 'homeland' due to a cataclysmic disruption, such as war, famine, etc.
Diaspora is the dispersion of a population from their native land, particularly involuntary mass dispersions. Originally it referred to the Jewish diaspora . Diaspora may also refer to:
The phrase African diaspora gradually entered common usage at the turn of the 21st century. [56] The term diaspora originates from the Greek διασπορά (diaspora, "scattering") which gained popularity in English in reference to the Jewish diaspora before being more broadly applied to other populations. [57]
The thing is, if we adapt that sentence without removing the part about the Jewish diaspora it makes even less sense, as the word wasn't first used in the Septuagint. We can leave the fact that the word originates in Greek, and by proxy the Hellenic world, and by proxy Greeks for historicity purposes. If we remove the "first used" part, we need ...