Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Vocabulary: Tuesday, February 1, 2011


diaspora (n.)
  • a migration of a group of people away from their homeland
  • a group of people who have migrated outside their homeland

During the mid-19th century, the Irish diaspora began, because the Great Famine caused mass starvation and disease. The population dropped about 25%: one million emigrated and another million died.

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