Word: diaspora
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...Turkish government has responded to the National Assembly's decision by threatening to cancel lucrative defence and telecommunications contracts with French firms. In Britain, the Armenian diaspora has accused the British government of placing politics above principle when it failed to give a more central place to Armenian suffering in the newly-declared Holocaust commemoration, held last week...
Such attitudes fill Dink and other Turkish Armenians with despair. He denies the view of the diaspora that Armenians living in Turkey are being held hostage. They believe that it is years of silence on the part of Turks themselves that has resulted in the current impasse. "I want to be proud of my country with its past and present," said Nazar Buyum, the head of a large Istanbul advertising firm. The first step, in this way of thinking is to stop labeling legitimate attempts to examine history as some sort of conspiracy...
...TIME.com spoke with Professor Eltis, a leading scholar on the African Diaspora, about his book...
...Although the whole of Africa collectively took home 34 medals, the same as seventh-place Italy, that also doesn't tell the whole story of that continent's Olympic prowess. The African diaspora - the descendants of slaves shipped to the New World and émigré former colonial subjects - accounted for masses more. How many of the U.S. medals, for example, were won by people of African origin? Well, let's see: There's most of the Dream Team and the women's basketball team; there's Marion Jones; there's Maurice Greene... need...
...through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while...