diaspora

• Many of these Japanese had come in the diaspora, after the Chinese armies had conquered Japan, in the Yung Cheng dynasty, a hundred and twenty years before. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The tremendous intellectual and mechanical progress that had been initiated by Islamic scientists was picked up and carried to much greater heights by the Buddhist monks of Travancore and the Japanese diaspora, and this revolution in mechanical capacity was quickly developed by China and the New World free states; by everyone, in fact, except for Dar al-Islam. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• I've read books that say all our progress in science comes from the Japanese diaspora, as the latest and strongest of the Buddhist diasporas. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• But for its support among the economically powerful Tamil diaspora, the LTTE has few supporters in the international community today. —  Asia Times Online
• Event managers feel that the key to boost the confidence of the diaspora is the formation of a separate Ministry for the welfare of an estimated 25 million overseas Indians, including those who still hold Indian passports (NRIs) and those who don't (People of Indian Origin). —  The Hindu - Front Page

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