Diasporic describes groups of people who live far away from their home country. One of the largest diasporic communities in the U.S. is made up of Vietnamese immigrants.
Anyone in a diasporic group shares a homeland or heritage with the other members of that group. Many of these communities formed after people had to leave their own country and find refuge in another — after the Vietnam War, thousands of Vietnamese citizens fled their homes. They now form a diasporic group of about five million in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, and Australia. Diasporic has a Greek root meaning "to scatter about."