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diaspora · /diˈaspoʁa/
diaspora
diaspora/diˈaspoʁa/noun
a community scattered away from an ancestral homeland
eine Gemeinschaft, die fern der angestammten Heimat lebt
The word is not only Korean; any scattered homeland community can be a diaspora.
Nicht nur koreanisch: jede zerstreute Heimatgemeinschaft kann so heißen.
Examples
Historians study the Armenian diaspora that formed in the early twentieth century.
The Korean diaspora in Los Angeles still runs weekend language schools for children.
Members of the diaspora send money home and vote in homeland elections from abroad.
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