Example sentences for: diaspora

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

  • It's the "Diaspora chic" Eric Liu described earlier in Slate: the recent tendency of American minorities to think of themselves as communities in exile, a component of the greater national obsession with finding one's roots.

  • He's saying the diaspora is understandable--but that it's also killing people.

  • According to the Washington Post , critics faulted the CD-ROM for failing 1) to address the cultural impact of the African diaspora; 2) to provide a definitive list of the voyages; and 3) to mention the names of any of the millions of Africans transported to America on slave ships.

  • Which means that in the diaspora, Chineseness is not a more authentic way of being; it is just a decision to act Chinese.

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


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