In the never-ending debate over whether America is a people with an idea or an idea with a people, it is worth considering an important measure of a people: the diaspora. Any nation that is fundamentally built around a people and its shared history has a diaspora: the people who are blood of the blood of the nation and once shared the same homeland but have since dispersed. Some nations built upon shared blood, soil, and faith have important traditions and connections to the people who share those things but no........

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