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A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion")[1] is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland"[2] or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location",[3] or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".[2]
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1991, William Safran set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities. These included criteria that the group maintains a myth or collective memory of their homeland; they regard their ancestral homeland as their true home, to which they will eventually return; being committed to the restoration or maintenance of that homeland; and they relate "personally or vicariously" to the homeland to a point where it shapes their identity.
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present complex information quickly and clearly
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Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge.
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While the art form of infographics has its roots in print, by the year 2000, the use of Adobe Flash-based animations on the web has allowed mapping solutions and other products famous and addictive by using many key best practices of infographics. With the rise of HTML 5 as an alternative to Adobe Flash in the early 2010s there is an increasing number of infogratphics being built in HTML 5
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Likewise, their use in television is relatively recent. In 2002, two Norwegian musicians of Röyksopp issued a music video for their song "Remind Me" that was completely made from animated infographics. In 2004, a television commercial for the French energy company Areva used similar animated infographics. Both of these videos and their high visibility have helped the corporate world recognize the value in using this form of visual language to describe complex information efficiently.
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