Diaspora:

Select one:

a. Is a term that was originally used commonly to describe the spreading of Jewish people around the world.  It was later used to describe the spreading of people from Africa as in the "African diaspora."  Scholars also talk about the Korean, Okinawan, and other diasporas.

b. Is a term used originally to describe Okinawans who left Okinawa in the early 1900s and settled in Hawai'i, Guam, San Francisco, and Peru.

c. Is the name of the ship that carried the first Japanese immigrants to Mexico in 1892.  The Diaspora was actually the first modern steamship built in Meiji Japan using British shipbuilding techniques and iron from China.  The captain of the Diaspora was Nakamura Gongoro, the son of Nakamura Daigoro, who was the first Japanese to receive a college degree from Harvard University in 1872.  The younger Nakamura grew up partly in Massachusetts where he was educated before returning to Japan in 1885.

d. Is a word that describes an imaginative geography that helps one create an identity based on the dichotomy between the Orient (east) and the Occident (West).