Example sentences for: diaspora

How can you use “diaspora” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But recent experiences in San Francisco, as well as casual earlier observations in the New York area and in Israel suggest to me that Russian is to the current Ashkenazic Diaspora what Yiddish was to earlier Jewish communities in Europe and America.

  • In their shared view, the locus of cultural and economic sovereignty is now the diaspora; the unit of human agency, the race.

  • And I like the entries on countries in Africa and the Black Diaspora and the accompanying "ready references" summarizing demographic and economic data about those countries.

  • The lure of the diaspora may be more atavistic for Irish-Americans than other groups.

  • As for Foer's criticism of Irish-American identification with Irish culture as part of a so-called "Diaspora chic," he is unfair to those Americans of Irish descent who do not romanticize terrorism, support Sinn Fein or the IRA, join organizations like the Ancient Order of Hibernians, or celebrate St. Patrick's day by getting obnoxiously drunk and excluding Irish-Americans who happen to be gay.


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