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Valruzian-Yeudi Diaspora "hardly a minority"

Amudim continues to walk on eggshells

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NOVEMBER 5689     |     YEUDI DIASPORA    |    @Neset

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Nowogard, Valruzia - Valruzia Today's last week's piece on the country's Yeudi Diaspora and complex political and cultural field prompted the Luthorian-based Benowitz Foundation to release its findings on the numbers of the Valruzian-Yeudi Diaspora that it has thus far collected.

Citing Nowogard's official demographic records, the report largely agrees with VT's - and other news outlets's - estimation that the diaspora accounts for approximately 13% of the entire population. With any special classification under minority or other ethnicities absent, the 18.5% of documented practitioners of Yeudism "toned down" by several points "feels reasonable", especially considering the country's continuous advance towards secularism in recent decades.

The foundation's report, however, disagreed with the actual number: Nowogard's records, though accounting for a 0.5% growth rate between the total population's 130M in the 30s to the 170M in the 90s, assumes a relative increase for the 13% of the Yeudi Diaspora, as well.

The unverified projection ranges between 11% (18.8M) and 12.3% (21M), with most researchers leaning on the former. The foundation has reached out to Valruzian officials, in an attempt to verify.

Clash of views

Just because there exists a diaspora on a nation's main ethnic group, does not equate, well, to equating them, automatically. After hundreds if not thousands of years of walking different national, cultural and other paths altogether, it'd be hard to even call it a diaspora, in the first place.

Despite Valruzia's quite notable numbers - almost half the 41M+ population of Amudim itself - and although certain parts of the world saw their Yeudi Diasporas get entangled in more direct relations with each other and the Homeland itself through the Neset, Valruzia's was not one of them. The shipping industry's collapse in Seleya after the War of Lost Souls with Lourenne in the 5470s and 5480s essentially wiped the last traces of global Yeudi capitalism in Valruzia.

Which brings us to the next, but equally important point: a clash in how to live and grow in life. Homeland Yeudis, and active pockets of the Yeudi Diaspora (excl. Kalistan) have been one of the world's most notorious capitalists without fail, for centuries on end, despite the troubles.

In fact, the Weiss Administration of the 5320s killed the last traces of any kind of "leftism" in Beiteynu - the legacy survives until today, with right of center dominating politics, and Jelbic-Yeudi-driven nationalist conservatism pushing that even further in the last years leading up to the reunification.

Although there are pockets of "communism" in Amudim itself, they are limited to kibbutz installations around the mountain lines of the Karkaari. Several of these are led by Rabbis who practice Yeudism fervently, despite the land's quite extensive pivot to secularism, as well.

Still, even those, include Yeudis with capitalist-level wealth; an oxymoron that circles back to the political and cultural divide between the Homeland and the majority of Valruzian-Yeudis.

There simply is, almost no alignment, whatsoever.