Word: diaspora
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...would not sign Catholic players no matter how talented. But to understand why the Rangers faithful were seen flying the Israeli flag, one only had to look across the field to the fans of the visiting team, Glasgow Celtic - the pride of Scotland's Catholics and the Irish Catholic Diaspora - were flying Palestinian flags. Call that an instance of wry Glaswegian humor inserting itself into the decades-old binary sectarianism that binds the soccer terraces of Glasgow to the bloody streets of Northern Ireland...
...comes up against Real Madrid, the soccer symbol of the Spanish crown, it's more than simply an athletic spectacle involving 22 men and a ball. And when a Republic of Ireland striker puts one past the England goalkeeper in an international fixture, the roar heard across the Irish Diaspora expresses a passion that long predates the game of soccer itself. But just as the forces of globalization are challenging long-established notions of identity by eroding traditional boundaries of nation and tribe, so is the globalization of professional soccer challenging some of the traditional bases of identification with...
...movie is perhaps more powerful because of the chord it struck with its viewers from the South Asian diaspora...
...account for within a single narrative. And yet a shortcoming of the American academy has been the persistence of American exceptionalism and the often inward focus of multiculturalism, an emphasis on difference rather than connection. These themes have only recently begun to be complicated through models of comparative history, diaspora and inter-group solidarity...
...poses the cultural question of the moment. South Asian pop--Bollywood movies, Indian music and dance, the whole vibrant masala of subcontinental culture--not only enthralls a billion Indians at home but also spans half the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Eastern Europe and the Indian diaspora in Britain and the U.S. Now Indi-pop is close to a critical mass in the U.S. The 2 million American Desis (mainly people of Indian and Pakistani heritage) have made it a burgeoning niche industry. But can it finally catch on in the mall theaters and dance clubs...