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Diaspora

A population dispersed from an original homeland, maintaining collective identity, cultural memory, and often continued connection to that homeland or to one another across generations and national borders. Diaspora communities are frequently a primary site where language maintenance, cultural transmission, and cultural appropriation debates play out under conditions of globalization far from a culture's original geographic setting.

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