Friday, September 11, 2009

Anatomy of Diaspora

This word entered from Greek to many languages after the Greek translation of Bible.
The meaning is to scatter around or dispersion.
When people are exiled from their motherland we can say they are in diaspora
The next question that come in my mind how many people you know are in diaspora?
Most of us will give a small figure, one,two or a bit more.
Himmmmm.
Let us ask from how many countries people left to live in diaspora?
Due to the war,exile,climatic change,economic conditions?
From how many countries?
Himm....
I searched
Almost every country at one time lost a big part of its population
It is part of history of humanity
If you are not convinced
Go to wilkipedia.org
And in search windows type: d i a s p o r a
When you see in different times and continents how many people left for diaspora
you will be surprised like me.
You will ask
Do we end up loving to be in diaspora?
And if you are in diaspora just think there is almost 200 Millions of people are like you...
And many countries have a good proportion of their population are from your group.
People left when they did not have a choice to stay
But most given a choice choose not to go back.
It was always this way.
Since very long time.

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