Diaspora

On the first day of Cultural Diversity we had an assignment to point out where our ancestors are from. When everybody did that you could clearly see how mixed and diverse the class was. One of the teachers, Jan, started talking about diaspora. I didn’t know what it was and for some reason I really liked the word. So I googled it:



So I had a lot of questions because in some case this could be voluntarily (to have power, knowledge, control around the world), but it can also be not voluntarily (slavery etc).
Is the word diaspora neutral? Does it immediately has a bad meaning?





Also is there a diaspora identity?
















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A diaspora is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. (wikipedia.org)

Victim of diaspora: A class of people who have been banished from their place of origin and sent to another land. Usually result of a traumatic event, like conquest persecution, enslavement, genocide or exile. Example: African in North Atlantic Slave Trade. (wikipedia.org)