Expulsion
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Expulsion may refer to:
- Expulsion, in the Book of Genesis, refers to the decree of expulsion from the Garden of Eden issued by God against Adam and Eve after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. However, the expulsion was not the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit. They were expelled from the Garden of Eden for the reason that, as says the Bible text, "He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever." (Genesis 3:22).
- Deportation, the expulsion of someone from a country, usually an illegal alien.
- Expulsion of foreign populations after a war, i.e. German, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Tatar populations following World War II. The term indicates condemnation of the events. An alternative term with a more neutral or even apologetic stance is population transfer; a stronger term is the modern ethnic cleansing.
- Expulsion (academia), in terms of a school or university, is defined as removing a student from the institution for violating rules or honor codes. See also rustication.
- Expulsion, in football (soccer) is used as a reference to a player being sent off the playing field, i.e. when given the red card.
- Genocide, which was a euphemistically called expulsion in World War II; The Nazis used this term to describe the forced deportation of Jews and other victims to death camps during the Holocaust.
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