Diasporic, Religious and Modern Social Formations

This subcategory gathers documented social groups whose defining feature is not a home territory but a shared history of dispersion, a chosen religious or communal practice, or a shared generational or cultural experience, including the diasporic Ashkenazi Jews and Roma, the intentional religious communities of the Amish and Hutterites, the historical warrior class of the Samurai, the Baby Boomers as a documented generational cohort, and the Hippie and Punk subcultures as documented youth movements. It exists because forcing these groups into a single home region would misdescribe what actually defines each of them, a distinction this structure wave records explicitly rather than leaving these entities unplaced.