摘要：“People here seem to relish being more Scottish than the Scots themselves." -Billy Connolly in travel documentary Journey to the Edge of the World Diaspora “Diaspora,” when used in an academic historical context, refers to the dispersion of a people to many different places. However, some social scientists have suggested that Diaspora studies and even the definition of diaspora also extend to human culture, as ideologies of ethnic and national identity form the central element of particular Diasporas. These ideologies form “imagined communities” among the participants of the culture, and may even be adopted among individuals and groups without ancestral links to the host society. Rogers Brubaker has suggested that “rather than speak of ‘a diaspora’ or ‘the diaspora’ as an entity, a bounded group, an ethnodemographic or ethnocultural fact, it may be more fruitful, and certainly more precise, to speak of diasporic stances, projects, claims, idioms, practices, and so on.”
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