Ch.7 Flashcards

1
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Define ethnicity

A

Identity with a group of people with the same cultural traditions of a particular homeland/hearth

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2
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Define race

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Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor

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3
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Define racism

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The belief that one race is superior to another

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4
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Name the three most numerous ethnicities in the U.S.

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Asian American, African American, Hispanic American

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5
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What is the problem with the way the U.S. Census Bureau defines “Asian”?

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Asian=Race Asian American=ethnicity

same group of people which includes Americans from many countries in Asia

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6
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What is the difference between African American and black?

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Afr. Amer. is an ethnicity, Black is race

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7
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How does the U.S. Bureau consider Hispanic/Latino?

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They divided it between Hispanic and Hispanic American

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8
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List examples of Afr.A and Hispanic Americans being more urbanized

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90% of both ethnicities live in metropolitan areas compared to 75% of all Americans

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9
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Where are Hispanics clustered?

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South West in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Claifornia

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10
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Where are African Americans clustered?

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Southeast in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Mississippi

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11
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Where are Asian Americans clustered?

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West=40%, in Hawaii, 1/2 in California- 12% of the population

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12
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Forced Migration for Africans

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Africans were forced out of their homes in Africa to become slaves in America- Jamestown, 1619

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13
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Interregional Migration for African Americans

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1910+1920 A.A. moved to the North and West before and after WW1. 1940s+1950s: after WW2 migration to factories for more jobs

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14
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Intraregional Migration

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A.A. went to the big cities and clustered in neighborhoods where small numbers of A.A. arrived in the nineteenth century. Known as ghettos

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15
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Define “White Flight”

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Whites leaving their neighborhoods predicting that blacks would soon move in

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16
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Define “Blockbusting”

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Real estate agents persuading whites who lived in or near a black area to sell their houses for low prices, saying that blacks would soon move in soon

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17
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Define “Separate but equal”

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All public services were segregated although the different races were “still treated equally” (not)

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18
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Define apartheid

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The physical separation of different races into geographic areas

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19
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Explain the key components of the apartheid system

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A newborn baby was classified as black, white, colored or Asian, based race, people could work, live, and attend school in certain areas

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20
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1652 in South Africa

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The apartheid system was created by the descendants of whites who arrived in South Africa from the Netherlands

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21
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1795 in South Africa

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The British captured an controlled the Dutch colony and controlled South Africas gov.

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22
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1948 in South Africa

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The Afrikaner dominated Nationalists Party won elections- the Afrikaners gained power

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23
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1991 in South Africa

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The white-dominated gov. repealed the apartheid laws

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24
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1994 in South Africa

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Nelson Mandela became the first black president, South Africans were allowed to vote for the first time

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25
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Define Nationality

A

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country

26
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Ethnicity v.s. Nationality

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Ethnicity: Religion, language,+ material culture
U.S.=Distinct ancestry and cultural traditions
U.K.: Welsh, English, Irish, and Scots
Nationality: Voting, loyalty to country

27
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Ethnicity v.s. Nationality in the U.K.

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Ethnicity: The British Isles compromise of Rep. of Ireland; Welsh, Irish, Scots. British Nationality: Loyalty to country

28
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Define Nationalism

A

Loyalty and devotion to a nationality

29
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How do nations+states foster nationalism?

A

Promoting symbols of the country- flags and songs

30
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Define centripetal forces

A

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

31
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List the religions of Lebanon

A

Christians (Minerates), Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, and the Greek Orthodox

32
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How did Lebanon’s 1943 constitution seek to solve the religion problem?

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Each religion must be rep. in the Chamber of Deputies according to %. President: Maronite Christian. Premier: Sunni Muslim. Foreign Minister: Greek Orthodox Christian. Speaker of the chamber of deputies: Shiite Muslim

33
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How has the make-up of the population changed since 1943? for Lebanon

A

Religious groups live in different regions of the country

34
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What happened in 1975? How has it been resolved? for Lebanon

A

A civil war, each religious group formed a private army/militia

35
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Ethnicities in Sri Lanka

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Sinhalese: 74%, Language: Indo-European lan. Indo-Iranian branch. Religion: Buddhism. Located in Northern India to Southerns
Tamil: 16% Language: Dravidian fam. Religion: Hinduism
Located: Palkstrait from India northern India

36
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How has violence between these two groups been suppressed during the past 300 years? in Sri Lanka

A

European control

37
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What occurred in 1948? in Sri Lanka

A

Sri Lanka gained its independence

38
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Which group is unhappy? Why? in Sri Lanka

A

Tamil bc they feel like they are being discriminated bc the Sinhalese control most of the gov.

39
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When the Birtish ended colonial control of South Asia in 1947, how was the region divided politically, an how was the region divided ethinically (religiously)

A

Politcally: India+ Pakistan- Hindu

Split by India- East+West Pakistan- Muslim

40
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How many people found themselves on the “wrong side of the border” in the 1940s in India and Pakistan

A

17 million people

41
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How many Muslims migrated from India to West Pakistan (Pakistan, today)?

A

6 million

42
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How many Muslims migrated to East Pakistan (Bangladesh, today)

A

1 million

43
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How many Hindus migrated from East and West Pakistan into India?

A

6 million from West 3.5 from East= 9.5 million in all

44
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What happened to many of the refugees as they traveled? In India and Pakistan

A

They were usually killed by people from the rival religion, and were attacked by extremists (massacres)

45
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Why is the region of Kashmir a problem?

A

Neither Pakistan nor India agreed on the location of the boundary separating the two countries

46
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What are some of the issues that the Kurds suffer from?

A

They are split amongst several countries suffer from suppression of their culture by the Turks+unsuccessful rebellions, don’t have an independent state

47
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Define ethnic cleansing

A

A more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one to create a homogeneous region

48
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Ethnic Cleansing v.s. Normal warfare

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Ethnic Cleansing: You remove every member of an ethnicity rather than simply trying to defeat an enemy

49
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List the countries of the Balkan Pennisula

A
  1. Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania
50
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Important facts about Yugoslavia

A

June 1914- heir to throne of Austria-Hungary was killed. Assassin= Serb wanted independence for Bosnia- Yugoslavia was created after WW1 to unite

51
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Yugoslav refrain

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Five Nationalities: Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrens, Serbs, Slovenes Four Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian Three religions: Roman Catholic=north, Orthodox= East Islam= South
Two alphabets= Croatian+Slovene

52
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What ethno-political problems did the country face after the death of Tito in the 80s and the fall of Communism in the 90s?

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Titos death= breakup of the country. 6 independent countries

53
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Why did Serbs and Croats in Bosnia ethnically cleanse themselves of Bosnia Muslims?

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Bosnian Muslims were considered an ethnicity not a nationality, Serbs+Croats fought to unite the areas of the republic that they inhabited w/t Serbia+Croatia

54
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What was agreed upon at the accords signed between these rival ethnicities in Dayton, Ohio in 1996?

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Divided Bosnia+Herzegovina into 3 regions- each dominated by the Bosnian Croats, Muslims, and Serbs
Croats+Muslims combined into a federation- Serb mostly acts independent from the others

55
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Who got the best deal? Who got the worst? Explain

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Best: Serbs, received almost 1/2 of the country-compromised 1/3 of the population
Worst: Muslims-1/2 of population received 1/4 of land
Croats: 1/4 of land, 1/6 of pop.

56
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What country controlled Kosovo?

A

Serbia

57
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What ethnic group lives in Kosovo (and %)

A

Ethnic Albanians-90%

58
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With the breakup of Yugoslavia, what began to happen in Kosovo?

A

Serbia took direct control, launched ethnic cleansing if the ethnic Albanians

59
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How did the U.S. and U.N. respond?

A

Launched an air attack against Serbia

60
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Define Balkanized

A

A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into 1 or more stable states- inhabited ethnicities who hated each other

61
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Define Balkanization

A

The process in which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethinicities - threat to peace throughout the world

62
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If peace comes to the Balkan Peninsula in the next few years why will it be “in a tragic way” according to the author of the textbook

A

Bc ethnic cleansing has already done its job of killing many ethnicities Ethnic homogeneity may be the sad price of peace