Where is the European diaspora? - Democratic Underground

Boojatta

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Sun Mar-23-08 01:17 PM
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Poll question: Where is the European diaspora?

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NoodleBoy

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Sun Mar-23-08 01:19 PM
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1. start by defining diaspora. is it when people emigrate on their own terms?

Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 01:19 PM by NoodleBoy

is it when communities leave because of failed crops, or when they are de facto or de jure forced out by another social group?

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panader0

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Sun Mar-23-08 01:23 PM
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2. Diaspora was in my crossword

The clue was "group migration"

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NoodleBoy

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Sun Mar-23-08 01:54 PM
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3. it's usually in the context of forced displacement, though.

and, as usual, boojatta doesn't do anything to make his stupid polls any clearer.

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Boojatta

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Sun Mar-23-08 06:31 PM
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10. When the public schools and news media use the word "diaspora"...

do they always include a definition?

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NoodleBoy

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Mon Mar-24-08 12:56 PM
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11. that is irrelevant to this discussion. will you answer my question?

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Sun Mar-23-08 02:01 PM
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4. My Irish mother & gradmother diasporated to Britain, then Canada, then California.

To steal floor scrubbing jobs from "good" Brits, Canadians, and "murkins.

And, my father fled Arkansas during the depression to steal a longshoreman job from a "good" Californian.

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HereSince1628

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Sun Mar-23-08 02:33 PM
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5. So there is an interestin word-diasporated

Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 02:35 PM by HereSince1628

diasporated now would that imply a diasporator and a diasporatee?

My McChesney ancestors now they were Scots Irish and probably not diasporated.

My Martin ancestors on the otherhand, poor Catholics don't cha ya know? They left during the potato famine. I'm wondering, just fer the sake of curiosity, if that would have made them diasPOTATERED?

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Sun Mar-23-08 02:46 PM
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7. ....

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galledgoblin

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Sun Mar-23-08 02:37 PM
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6. which generation(s)?

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Sun Mar-23-08 02:54 PM
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8. Well, my German Jewish Great, great grandfather diasporated? to the US, and fought in the Civil War.

My Polish Jewish Great Grandparents and Grandparents, diasporated(?) to New York around the early 1900s. They were driven from their homes because of pogroms. Remember Fiddler On The Roof??? Being poor, they must have originally taken jobs that no American wanted, right?

So should I be replying to the Jewish or European poll? Or both? Actually, why have I responded to this nonsense in the first place?????

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HereSince1628

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Sun Mar-23-08 03:04 PM
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9. If ya hadn't a responded there'd a been a diasporatored famine fer sure

Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 03:06 PM by HereSince1628

Think of all those y've spared by respond'n!

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