Society revisited

My group’s word cluster consists of once again, deconstruction, diaspora, society, reform and revolution, and race. How do these words relate to one another when our text for the course lists none of these ‘counterparts’ under the ‘related words’ or ‘see (also)’ section at the end of each term? The best we can do is to carefully assess the book’s definitions and draw connections. We will be deconstructing these terms and reforming them. What a coincidence, as those are our terms and that is what we have to do with them. Now onto the topic. As suggested in “New Keywords”, society seems to be 'displaced' by words similar to 'modernity'. This relates to one of our cluster words, deconstruction.
Deconstruction is nearly synonymous to 'criticism' or 'critique' as it is a 'strategy of complication'. In this sense, society has been both critiqued (does society cause poverty?) and complicated (society does not exist, despite some call it a living structure). Using Rachel’s example of the deconstructed salad, you take a single item sold in a store or a restaurant and it turn into a bunch of different items. How does this relate to society, or race? Society has been made complicated as the definition of society isn’t completely agreed on. In our American society, as we define ourselves as a big melting pot, we are made up of many ethnic groups or races. Unfortunately, because of attempts to assimilate, many second or third generation families value less on the cultural backgrounds, language and history of their ancestors and homeland, and focus more on assimilating into the American society. I can argue that by being a melting pot, not exactly embracing differences, but assimilating and losing ourselves, our ‘racial identity’. For example, I am a Chinese American, born in the United States. Although I am fluent in speaking the language, many of my Chinese American peers are not while a few others have not been taught to speak Chinese in their upbringing. In this sense, the Chinese-American race has been 'deconstructed' and reformed to better fit into society. Perhaps this could be seen as a mild form diaspora, the scattering of seeds (race and their geographical location) or dispersing of races.
While my understanding or definitions of these terms might not wholly relate or agree with those in the text and the text has drawn no direct relationship between those words, the relationship is something I have experienced and observed firsthand. A society is constantly deconstructed, and those counterparts such as race must be reformed along with society for reasons of survival and societal progress, and revolution. Through the deconstruction and reconstruction, some parts inevitably get lost, disperse, and scatter.