diaspora

noun4

1. •
   Jews outside of the land of Israel.
2. •
   The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.

   • Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
3. •
   The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).

   • The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
4. •
   Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.

   • Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages — 1988