Is Katrina a Diaspora? The world defined. The BBC calls it a Diaspora.

Date:   9/2/2005 4:08:36 PM ( 19 y ago)

Is Katrina a Diaspora?
What is a Diaspora?

I an calling New Orleans
an American Diaspora.
It is a scattering of people,
a scattering of conciousness,
a scattering of various ethnic roots,
a dispersal of energies look stuck
long contained...as seeds blow
far from home.

These are indeed refugees.
Many will not return to New Orleans.
They have no reason to go back.
They have left the past.
They are being forces by circumstance
to new ideas and ways as the Good People
of the World ALL come together to show LOVE.

This is the nature of such disasters.

The disaster was that LOVE, in the deeper meanings,
was fractured in this place. THe flow was already
ruptured before the physical rupture of the Levee.

I will be writing more on this theme.

your eg


Diaspora Defined:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora


This article is about dispersion of peoples. For the novel by Greg Egan, see Diaspora (novel).


Look up Diaspora on Wiktionary, the free dictionary

The term diaspora (Ancient Greek diasor?, a scattering or sowing of seeds) is used (without capitalization) to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture.

Originally, the term Diaspora (capitalized) was used to refer specifically to the populations of Jews exiled from Judea in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, and Jerusalem in 135 CE by the Roman Empire. This term is used interchangeably to refer to the historical movements of the dispersed ethnic population of Israel, the cultural development of that population, or the population itself. The probable origin of the word is the Septuagint version of Deuteronomy 28:25, "thou shalt be a diaspora (Greek for dispersion) in all kingdoms of the earth". The term has been used in its modern sense since the late twentieth century.

The academic field of diaspora studies was established in the late twentieth century in regard to the expanded meaning of diaspora.

The twentieth century in particular has seen massive ethnic refugee crises due to war and the rise of nationalism and racism. The first half of the twentieth century saw the creation of hundreds of millions of ethnic refugees across Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. Many of these refugees who did not die from starvation or war went to the Americas.

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"Katrina scatters a grim diaspora


By Will Walden
BBC News, in Baton Rouge, La & Memphis, Tn


The only certainty here now is uncertainty.

Across the south hundreds of thousands of Americans have been unceremoniously dumped: displaced by Katrina in rest stops and hotel lobbies; among strangers in shelters and in hospitals.

And for most there is no going back, for weeks, and more probably, months.

Many families who made it out have no place to stay



They sleep where they can.

The lucky ones, and they are indeed the lucky ones, have hotel rooms.

Entire families crowd into one room with little information, power that comes and goes, and no air conditioning.

For some, who thought initially Katrina wasn't as bad as the authorities had predicted, fate has dealt them a cruel hand.

Having checked out for the long journey home, they now find themselves back in hotel lobbies across the state pleading to have their rooms back.

The rooms of course have been filled with others seeking refuge. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4203360.stm




 

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