A Short History of Rubber
Originating from a tree found in the jungles of the Amazon, rubber was used in its raw form by indigenous
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The Thai Diaspora
The Thai diaspora is estimated to account for around 1.1 million people across the world. The most significant Thai populations around the world are based in the United States (247,000), South Korea (101,000), Australia (72,000), Taiwan (64,000), Germany (58,000) and the United Kingdom (48,000).
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The Scandinavian Diaspora
The Scandinavian diaspora encompasses the foreign populations of five different countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Despite the distinction between the countries, they bear a number of cultural and historical similarities and share similar patterns of migration.
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The Puerto Rican Diaspora
The Puerto Rican diaspora is overwhelmingly centralised in the United States due to the former essentially being a part of the latter. Puerto Ricans comprise 10% of the United States’ total Latin American population, a number of around 5.6 million.
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The Persian diaspora currently numbers at around 4.5 million people around the world. A significant portion of this population lives
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