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In this section, I will be tackling the theoritical foundation of the term Diaspora

through the lense of the church fathers of the Diaspora studies. I am focusing on
both Stuarrt Hall's and Homi Bhabha's diasporic literature and their understanding
and examination of the subject matter. Thier input will be of invaluable importance
to my thesis as they will help establish/anchor my thesis within its disciplinary
framework. Serving the argument of this paper, I will cast intense focus on the
truin of Identity Acculturation to demonstrate how their power dinamisims shape the
term of Diaspora.

the Formation of Diapora dates back to begining of the dawn of humanity. In fact,
Diaspora plays a dynamic role in the rise and the thrive of the humane civilization
across history. Due to repetitive incidents of War, Diseases political instability,
epidemics, and racial or ethnic disputations, the human race gained an
exceptoiponal mobiliy prefernce to survive across different geographies. Through
out history, Diaspora has been mainly the collatoral damaged of both trumatizing
experience such as the circumcentences I have refered to earlier and occupation of
someone else's land. However, with the overwhelming dominance of human race on
earth, Diaspora or disperssion is rarely the occupation of new empty land, and
rather the collective or ideocentric joining of faith, life and destiny of a fellow
in someone else's homeland. Diapora increasingly behold the meaning of stambling on
one another. the etymology of the term Diaspora stems from the ancient Greek word
"diaspeiro" which literally means disperssion of seed on someon else's land.

Bearing in mind its everlast floating significance, the notion of Diaspora has
attracted an overwhelming attention as to its metamorphis nature and meaning. A
wide range of schollars and academics argued that the term must be exclusively
restricted to the Jews and their Jewdaio cultural history , Mainly cohen in his
work . Others believe that the term oughht to be checked out from alternative vies
together with similar dispora examples like X, Y and Z. The bottom line behind
these contradicting point of views is that the first adhers to the excluvisity of
one race - the Jewsish - over the rest with more adherence/tendency towards
political correctness as the main premise. It is mainly due to the traumatic
experience jews wentthough during Hitler's Germany and its geopolitical aftermath
on the long and short term. The second and the late predominant view is more
inclusive. Fundamentally, everyone regardless of race, culture, history or
geography can subscribe - self categorize as diaspora. Most scholars subscribe to
this inclusive line of thought because it opens the possibility of exploring new
diaporas.

Amidst this conceptual perplexin contreversy of what does it mean to be diapora or


what it takes for someone to be intitelled to diaspora, I am going to dive deeper
into the different viwes and line of thoughts regarding this subject and I'll try
to cast out the differences and similarities. I will conduct this review
chronologically so as we can grasp the development of the Diapora and its Journey
towa

X argues that Diapora should have gone or are going through severe racial
segrartion and discrimination at the wae of the geographical displacement

The concept of Diaspora inspired numerous scholars, intellectuals and researchers


such as William Safran, Robin Cohen, James Clifford, and others. However, the
concept of Diaspora prompted various intellectual debates in the academic field
owing to its intricate nature and the instability of its conceptual definitions.
Hence, Dufoix in his well-informed account on the history of the term diaspora,
made the point that to properly understand the term Diaspora, it is essential and
of much significance to spot the light on the two main Diaspora groups: namely
Jewish diaspora and African (black) diaspora.
Further, Dufoix argues that Jews and Africans have undergone the same circumstance
in the countries wherethey lived. That is to say, both Africans and Jews were prone
to severe segregation and discrimination; Jews because of their religion and
culture; Africans were segregated on account of their ‘black’ race, which is
pejoratively used and regarded as a sign of backwardness, darkness and savagery

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