Raymond Trinh
ASA 114
Prof. Valverde
In Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness, Regina Lee explores the culturally dislocated or ideologically “fixed” communities. Lee presents how these types of communities have a lot of diversity and how it further developed. She states, “Homeland idealism, as a form of diasporic consciousness, is a strong identification with, and idealization of, the homeland by its diaspora” (54). Homeland idealism credits the homeland as being the most powerful motivator of diasporic behavior because the homeland-idealizing diasporic community is always marginalized due to people being physically absent from the homeland. Furthermore, Lee presents Boutique Multicultural Manifestation as “a direct effect of globalization has been the increase in cultural plurality (or pluralism), giving the rise to more and more multicultural societies resulting in debates over the granting of equal recognition and equal worth to minority cultures” (61). The intention is to establish something that is meant to be universally the same, an identical basket of “rights and immunities”.
What diaspora community would a well established individual be a part of?
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