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Diaspora. Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising.
A diaspora ( / daɪˈæspərə / dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. [3] [4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. [5] [6] [7]
v. t. e. Orishas (singular: orisha) [1] - correct spelling: singular - òrìṣà, plural - òrìṣàs - are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.
Diaspora language. The term diaspora language, coined in the 1980s, [1] is a sociolinguistic idea referring to a variety of languages spoken by peoples with common roots who have dispersed, under various pressures and often globally. The emergence and evolution of a diaspora language is usually part of a larger attempt to retain cultural identity.
Vietnam is marked red. Darker blue represent a larger number of overseas Vietnamese people by percent. Overseas Vietnamese ( Vietnamese: người Việt hải ngoại, Việt kiều or kiều bào) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in ...
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [39] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [40] [41] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central ...
Bulgarian diaspora – an estimated three million ethnic Bulgarians are dispersed around the world, the majority in Europe such as in neighboring nations of Romania, Greece, Serbia, Turkey and North Macedonia. About 200,000 in the US, with 50,000 others in Canada, 20,000 in Australia, and 20,000 in Brazil.
Subject matter. The Practice of Diaspora focuses on black writers in the interwar period. "Retracing the encounters between black intellectuals from both the Anglophone and the Francophone world in Paris, during the early to middle decades of the twentieth century, Edwards is able to make broader theoretical and historical claims for the role ...