diaspora - Reflexions

diaspora

A term that derives from the ancient Greek diasporá – dispersal, originally used in botany to speak of seed dispersal.
The term was first used to talk about the Jewish diaspora, but today it is used to describe more broadly the dispersal of a population or an ethnic community around the world (Italian, African or Palestinian diaspora). The first diasporas date back to antiquity. Although it is impossible to calculate exactly the extent of the diasporas, it is possible to estimate the overall number at over 600 million people, so about 10% of the world’s population.