Meaning of diasporan | Babel Free
daɪˈæspəɹənDefinitions
Of or pertaining to a diaspora.
Examples
“The process⟳ by which ethnic sites become⟳ calendar illustrations--and ethnicity and history become⟳ a commodity--entails a chain of communication that passes from nationalist to diasporan to assimilationist, bringing the first two closer together and moving the second two further apart, a chain all of us are involved in nowadays on multiple levels, in relation to both our own⟳ families and ethnic roots and those of others.”
“Using some of his familiar loop strategies, whereby the same material gets compulsively replayed, Egoyan tells a story about a marriage that disintegrates during a trip⟳ from North America to Armenia, where an assimilated Canadian-Armenian photographer (Egoyan himself), while shooting a dozen rural churches for a calendar, becomes insanely jealous when his diasporan Armenian wife (Egoyan's real-life wife Arsinee Khanjian) converses with their guide⟳ in Armenian.”
“Not ripoff but great triumph of; the world adopts the diasporan esthetic."”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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