Ch.7 Ethnicity and Nationalism Flashcards
ethnicity
a sense of historical, cultural and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group
origin myth
a story told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity
ethnic boundary marker
a practice or belief, such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not
genocide
the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group
situational negotiation of identity
an individual’s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location
ethnic cleansing
efforts by representatives of one ethic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area
melting pot
a metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture
assimilation
the process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups
multiculuralim
a pattern of ethnic relations in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture and yet retain an ethnic culture
state
an autonomous regional structure of political, economic and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory
nation-state
a political entity, located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people
nation
a term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangeably with nation-state
nationalism
the desire of an ethnic community to create and/or maintain a nation-state
imagined community
the invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never meet
