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Which of these is an example of a diaspora? and we have four options.
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So first of all, let's define this term.
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A diaspora is when you have people of a shared cultural or ethnic background who have been spread out across the world.
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Usually they don't choose to leave their homeland, they are forced out for some reason, and as a result they really cling onto their their home culture.
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So you would see this culture in various places.
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Some examples, we have the irish diaspora.
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Why were they driven out? well, because of the great famine.
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We have the african diaspora.
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This is for people who were forced there by the atlantic slave trade.
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So you see this throughout the americas.
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And this is an interesting one in that they could not keep their culture with them.
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They had to form a new culture...