"Transnationalizing Viet Nam" by Valverde talks about the true meaning of diaspora and how Viet Nam and Vietnamese Americans are still connected and influenced by each other in many ways. Before taking this class, I thought that the word diaspora only had a positive meaning, where one feels a connection to its homeland whether it was emotionally or spiritually. After attending class and reading Valverde's book, I realized how the word diaspora has a much deeper meaning and is often frequently associated with the traumatic forced expulsion of Jews from their homeland. The reading was about the meaning of displacements. In the reading, "Asian American Displacements" by Anderson and Lee defined the term displacement as a "separation of people from from their native culture through physical dislocation or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture." When one often thinks of displaced people as immigrants and refugees, it is also important to realize that people such as "migrant works and expatriates, who by choice and by occupation, live in a different culture" are displaced people too.
Q:What effect did colonization had on the African communities?
References:
https://www.blacktalkradionetwork.com/diasporanews/
Anderson & Lee. (2005). Displacements and diasporas: Asians in the Americas.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline (2013). Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Temple University Press.
Ironically I also see diaspora as a positive term.
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