Excellent point about the diaspora narrative. There's an interesting flip side to the diaspora narrative, though, and that's the perspective of the committed pioneer/emigrant. The fiddlefootedness of the typical pioneer type is a cliche in Western Americana but as someone descended from that background, I can attest that it's very real. A diaspora type looks back to where they have been and where they come from and idealizes it. A fiddlefoot type wants to think about where they're going to be next. It's not always a narrative of dominance, though--chronicles of the early fur trappers in Western America reflected a desire to see and discover new things to them. Some of that was for profit and exploitation, but...it was also a big way to reset a life bogged down in more settled circumstances. I'm not particularly fond of a diaspora narrative any more. Exploration, yes.