Word: diaspora
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...21st century we are witnessing a shift within the African Diaspora, where we are rapidly moving towards two separate and unequal camps: the black elite and the black underclass. The much-celebrated black elite enjoys access to power and prestige that blacks have heretofore been denied, while the black underclass, victims of spatial isolation and concentrated poverty, are consistently plagued by violence and resource deprivation. Whereas the black elite roams the halls of power, the black underclass becomes even more removed from politics, and indeed life—committing themselves to a nihilistic alienation characterized by behaviors and attitudes that...
Black America has been lulled to sleep by our four decade-long celebration of baby steps toward racial equality with the Democratic party. It is now time to wake up from this slumber and realize that a sizeable part of black America and a huge swath of the African Diaspora are living a veritable nightmare. Ravaged by AIDS and poverty, exploited by rampant globalization, victimized by violence and political strife, the black underclass is facing what amounts to biological elimination...
...visit to Italy. "It is the only place on earth where Jews can live as Jews." It's the classic Zionist argument, familiar to Paris rabbi Tom Cohen, who insists that "Jews have not only the right, but an obligation to be outside Israel. Israel needs a strong diaspora." Sharon promotes immigration to counter the demographic threat that Jews will become a minority in Israel and the occupied territories. In doing so, he points to the link Chirac avoids: just as Jews are connected to Israel, some attacks on Jews are linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That link...
Sharansky said he hopes to bridge this gap between Israel and Jews in the diaspora who have strayed from the Zionist movement...
...read The Crimson’s review, I would have never gone to see “Gehri Dosti,” so I was lucky I saw it before it was reviewed. It is so rare to see social critique of South Asian culture in the South Asian diaspora, which often glorifies the world of the home country. How admirable to start a debate about existing taboos and involve the audience to the extent that the plays did. Why should this initiative be criticized in such a condescending tone? Miss India USA was one of the members...