Aside from the film's predilection for hiding mothers once their "use" has expired: I suppose we keep Sarek due to his sporadic appearances on TNG, but really, since we're to have a separate timeline, there should be no claim. It would've been much cooler to keep them both or to have just Amanda, even on the obvious level of having a point of difference to the Prime timeline. And yes, I wanted much, much more about identities from this film, alas. (Why can't Kirk have said at the end that his mother is proud of him? I assume she was absent during his childhood because she was in space.)

Sorry! "Cultural importance of maintaining one's own history" was meant to apply both to Vulcan and to what little I know of (some) Jewish practice today. I felt that diaspora is the more obvious superficial similarity, in a way, but that it doesn't hold as much importance: other human cultures have undergone significant diasporas, too, yet I find it difficult to draw relationships between those cultures and Vulcan.

And, um, sorry again, since there's no way all of that should have been smushed into a few short phrases.