diasporic
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- adjective
- /ˌdaɪəˈspɔrɪk/
- In her writing, she often reflects on the diasporic experiences of her family and how they shaped her identity.
- diasporic Chinese
- diasporic subjectivity
- diasporic identification
Examples
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The festival celebrated the diasporic heritage of families who had migrated and created new lives abroad.
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Indeed, information technology has created the environment for the negotiation of a diasporic national identity that replaces subnational ethnic identities.
Academic text (1998) -
In doing so, the leadership transformed the convention into a project of diasporic reproduction in political, social, and cultural terms.
Academic text (2005) -
But this left them, for a source of news, only the over-politicized rhetoric of the diasporic press.
Academic text (2004) -
Similarly, the beauty contestants confront these same criteria for being diasporic Chinese.
Academic text (2005) -
Upon encountering his words, I felt a sense of an age-old black diasporic culture that felt misty with the weight of time.
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Miss Costa Rica and Miss Honduras exemplified very different ways of being diasporic Chinese.
Academic text (2005) -
Commonalities could be drawn with all New World cultures and their diasporic origins—whether from Africa or elsewhere.
Academic text (2001) -
Approximately two hundred diasporic Chinese from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama attended.
Academic text (2005) -
Many diasporic communities have maintained strong cultural traditions despite living far from their ancestral homelands.
Synonyms
Connecting people in different places to share ideas or work together
How Dispersed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Diasporic comes from the Greek word diaspora, which means 'a scattering' and breaks into dia- 'across' and spora 'seed', like seeds that spread. So diasporic describes people or communities who are 'spread out' from their original homeland.