A phenomena that is occurring world-wide with communities that have had a "diaspora", migrating en mass, but that from abroad become a fundamental force/contributor to the development of their far-away homes. Take Latin America, for example. Through remittances, and other types of interaction, the diaspora has injected large economic stimulus to their domestic communities helping to jump-start a social transformation. While a large percentage of those countries do not enact policies that would give them a more hands-on approach of shaping the policies of their countries (for fear of completely shaking the status quo), the still emit a soft-power on their government and their influence on their respective societies cannot be denied.
Another issue I have with this article, is that it tries to promote an idealistic monolithic view of Jewish-Israeli identity, when in fact there are multiple Jews that are not Israeli, and/or are some of the most vocal critics of Israeli state of affairs. |
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