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dictionary definition; Diaspora
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Tuesday, April 22 2008, 23:45:33 (CEST)
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It's an almost hopeless cause educating these people...the good part is that you show how little they understand words or concepts, especially those they mis-use to make their case. Among the many such mutiliated words is Diaspora. So-called Assyrians believe they suffered and are suffering a diaspora...of course they aren't and never have.

according to that quaint book called a dictionary Diaspora is:

diaspora



Main Entry: di·as·po·ra
Pronunciation: \dī-ˈas-p(ə-)rə, dē-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek, dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow
Date: 1881
1capitalized a: the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile b: the area outside Palestine settled by Jews c: the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel

...okay. When we say we suffered a Diaspora, we're trying to sneak on the history of the Jews. When the word is capitalized, it means THE Diaspora...which means the one the Jews experienced, which was very different from any movement of Assyrians out of the MidEast...for one thing is was Roman policy to remove each and every Jew...nothing like that happened to us...it's true we left, even ran for our lives. But that was from specific parts of a country...at the same time Assyrianswere leaving....many more stayed right where they were...and the government didn't order them out. They left because they felt they needed to or wanted...same as today when no one in government has ordered all Assyrians out..on the contrary, they're being asked to stay.

2 a: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland <the black diaspora to northern cities> b: people settled far from their ancestral homelands <African diaspora> c: the place where these people live


..."movement" is just that; people MOVING with no implication as to why they moved...it can be for better jobs, better schools, safer neighborhoods...also people "settled" far from their ancestral homelands says nothing about force or violence or being ordered out.

If wartime conditions, especially when you're a native-born Christian and foreign Christians have attacked your country making your presence problematical...settling somewhere else is entirely a personal choice...certainly you can't blame your Muslim neighbors, when they're being attackd and resettled by the same Christians who make your continued residence dangerous.

In short "diapsora" carries no implication of violence or force....and when the word is used as a proper noun, as THE Diaspora, it refers ONLY to the Jews
under specific circumstances....so that IF Assyrians suffered a "diaspora" it simply means that they settled outside their ancestral homelands...presumably in some significant numbers. The woprd carries no other meaning than that.

But that won't do for us. We want to imply that we were FORCED out...and by government action and deliberately. And that's simply not the case...it's merely one more example of how we try to excite pity for ourselves and get people to include us when they think of the crimes commited against Jews....in truth we suffered nothing equal to what the Jews have and to try to take on words that have no application to us in hopes of having people feel sorry for us is...well, it's pathetic.



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