HybridityMd. Ahsan Habib

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What is DiasporaDiaspora? What is HybridityHybridity?

What is the relationrelation between Diaspora and Hybridity? In whice sectorssectors, hybridity is usually seen in a diasporic group?

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Diaspora

Dispersal from an original homeland. Expansion from a homeland in search of work, in pursuit of trade or

to further colonial ambitions. Collective memory regarding the homeland. Alienation in the new country. A desire to return to the homeland. a troubled relationship with host societies A sense of collective identity as a group.

Hybridity

Originates from the Latin word “hybrid”.Offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar.Mixing of two diffrent things. "The Location of Culture” by Homi K. Bhabha.Kraidy & Nederveen Pieterse: cultural effect of globalization.Creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonization.

Relation between Diaspora and Hybridity:

By moving countries the people bring with them the values and traditions in the culture of their native country. Mixing this with the new countries culture

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Hybrid Hybrid CultureCultureHybrid Hybrid CultureCulture

Diaspora and Racial Hybridity

Diaspora and Linguistics Hybridity

Language is a meaningful performance in that speaking requires two parties, one to perform language and an audience to observe and absorb language.

Mixing of traditional language and host countries language.

Diaspora and Cultural Identity

Internal identity External displays of identity

ideas, values and cultures etc. hairstyles, behaviour, clothes etc.

Example Muslim culture of Britain

Hybridity vs. Youth Culture

Hybridity is often associated with youth culture as it is synonymous with the modern Society.

Picking and mixingInfluenced by advertising, television and other forms of media.The increase in consumerism, another part of globalization and

modernity, has lead to identities becoming more and more of a commodity that we can purchase and sell through the acquisition of material goods (Miles, 2000)

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