Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Family Values, Jewish Diaspora, Communities First

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1022
• Professor: Zoran Maric

Document Summary

Diaspora (greek for dispersion ) has come to mean the scattering of people from their place of. The word for diaspora origin to a new place or places. It was first used to describe the jewish diaspora (displacement resulting from the holocaust, for example) The term has now expanded to include any scattering of people across the globe. Second generation: the children of the first generation; those born in the new country. Are dispersed from an original centre to at least two peripheral places. Maintain a memory or vision about their original homeland. Are committed to maintaining their original culture in the new land. Are defined (as far as identity) by this continuing relationship with this original homeland. Believe they are not (and perhaps can never be) fully accepted by their host country. See the ancestral home as a place of eventual return.