Part 4: News Words: Diaspora

Thousands demonstrated this week in Britain's capital, London, to protest agricultural reforms in India.

Diaspora

The protests were against three laws passed months ago by the Indian government,

which says they are meant to modernize methods of crops selling in India.

Britain is home to a large Indian diaspora.

A diaspora is a group of people who settle or are settled outside their ancestral homeland.

Diaspora comes from a Greek word that means to scatter or spread

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