Word: diaspora
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...19th arrondisement. Just when we were wondering if there were any non-whites in Paris, Oliver Schmitz provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic few years in a few moments: a job lost, a guitar stolen, a knife in the gut, all given meaning by one sweet brief encounter in a parking garage...
...near exam period, conversations about summer plans proliferate faster than outstanding course assignments. Harvard’s annual summer diaspora is just around the corner. As is the ordeal that makes it happen: travel...
...assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E. in Geneva on May 10. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, says the situation...
...exactly how many are now working in China, suffice to say there are so many that they tend to lump one another into an alphabet soup of classifications. There are: ABCs (American-born Chinese); NCAs (native Chinese Americans-those born in Taiwan, Hong Kong or elsewhere in the diaspora); and even, Shu jokes, "ABAs-Americans born in America, who just happen to be Chinese." They all come to China for obvious reasons: cultural familiarity, language skills, personal connections through friends or relatives...
...heyday, one of the city's oldest clans, the Wangs, built a shrine in the 11th century to honor their family. But the sanctuary was converted into a stable during the Cultural Revolution. Today, it has been rebuilt with more than $100,000 in donations from a vast diaspora of Wangs all over the world, who want a place to venerate their ancestors. "My parents worshipped Chairman Mao," says Su Min, a 31-year-old tourism official who prays twice a month at the Zhenwu Taoist Temple near Quanzhou. "Then we believed in [former Chinese leader] Deng Xiaoping because...