Diasporan

//daɪˈæspəɹən// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a diaspora.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a diaspora.

    "The process by which ethnic sites become calendar illustrations--and ethnicity and history become a commodity--entails a chain of communication that passes from nationalist to diasporan to assimilationist, bringing the first two closer together and moving the second two further apart, a chain all of us are involved in nowadays on multiple levels, in relation to both our own families and ethnic roots and those of others."

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diasporal

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"The process by which ethnic sites become calendar illustrations--and ethnicity and history become a commodity--entails a chain of communication that passes from nationalist to diasporan to assimilationist, bringing the first two closer together and moving the second two further apart, a chain all of us are involved in nowadays on multiple levels, in relation to both our own families and ethnic roots and those of others."

Etymology

From diaspora + -an.

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