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Alternative Fact

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A statement that can be proved to be false

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Cultural Homogenization

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The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture

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Custom

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A frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people preforming the act

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Cyber Espionage

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The unauthorized and clandestine deployment of a virus to observe or destroy data in the computer systems of government agencies and large corporations

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Fake News

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A false report disseminated under the guise of an authentic news report, created to maliciously spread misinformation and mislead consumers of the content

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Folk Culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

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Franchise

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An agreement between a corporation and buisness people to marketthe cooperations products in a totall area

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Habit

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual

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Malware

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Hostile or intrusive software designed to cause intentional harm

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Popular Culture

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Culture found in a large heterogeneous society that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

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Ransomware

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A form of Malware that encrypts the victims files, making them inaccessible, until a ransom is paid to decrypt them

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Taboo

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A restriction of behavior imposed by social contagion

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Terroir

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The contributed of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

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Trolling

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The practice of posting elaborately inflammatory, extraneous or off topic messages in social media in order to provoke quarrels or otherwise agitate people

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State

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The largest political unit, the formal term for a country.

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Multinational State

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A country with multiple culture groups or multiple ethnic groups under a single government.

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Autonomous Region

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A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state

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Multistate Nation

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When a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states

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Nationalism

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A nation’s desire to create and maintain a state of its own.

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Centripetal Forces

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Forces that pull people together

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Centrifugal Forces

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Forces that cause people to FIGHT

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Imperialism

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The practice of a country extending its power and influence over other countries

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Colonialism

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People move into and settle on the land of another country. (type of imperialism)

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Berlin Conference

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(aka the congo conference)

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Decolonization

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A process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

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Neocolonialism

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The control of less-developed countries by developed countries through indirect means.

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Genocide

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Mass, organized killing, in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.

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Cold War

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A state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc

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Statelite State

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A state dominated by another state politically and economically

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Ethnic Cleansing

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When a people group commits mass expulsion or mass killing of a particular ethnic group

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Sovereignty

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The power of a political unit to rule over its own affairs

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Nation State

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A state where the people are largely of the same ethnicity and shared heritage/culture

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Stateless Nation

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An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state

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Largest ruled countries in order of Landmass

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Russia, Canada, China, USA, then Brazil

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Nations

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A culturally defined group with the same past and similar goals in the future

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Territoriality

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The connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land

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Geometric boundary

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Straight lines as boundaries, often set by an agreement of (normally) 2 countries

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Relic boundary

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Historical boundary that is not there anymore but still have an impact (Berlin Wall is an example)

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Superimposed boundary

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Boundary that does not take ethnicity or history into account, normally lead to conflict

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Subsequent boundary

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boundaries developed with the cultural landscape

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Antecedent Boundary

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Boundary established before human landscape, often physical boundaries

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Consequent Boundary

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Boundaries drawn to accommodate ethnicity or culture

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Frontier

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A zone where no state exercises complete political control.

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Physical boundaries

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Significant features of the natural landscape

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Cultural boundary

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Follow the distribution of cultural characteristics

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Compact state

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The distance from center to boundary does not vary much at all, similar to a circle. Communication within the state is easier

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Elongated state

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Long and narrow, can lead to poor communication within a state

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Prorupted state

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An otherwise fairly compact state with a large projecting extension. Projection is usually for access to resources, to separate two states, or to separate ethnic groups

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Perforated state

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A state that completely surrounds another one. The inside state will rely completely on the surrounding state for importing and exporting

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Fragmented state

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Several separate pieces of territory. Can be separated by a physical feature (water), or another state (intervening state)

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Landlocked state

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No direct access to the ocean, no coast. This can lead to a lack of resources in a state, as much of modern trade is through ports.

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Wasted vote

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Spreads opposition across many districts, keeping them in the minority
Wasted vote: spreads opposition across many districts, keeping them in the minority

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Excess vote

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Concentrates opposition supporters into a few districts

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Stacked vote

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Links areas of like minded voters through oddly shaped boundaries

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Unitary state

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A central government (main government holds all legitimate power

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Federal state

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Allocates strong power to units of local gov within a country

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Shatterbelt

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A region caught between stronger colliding (external) forces and that breaks apart because of the aggressive rivals causing the state to be politically unstable

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Devolution

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The breakup of a state or the process in which regions within a state grow in power at the expense of a government

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Balkanization

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities, so not all devolution is balkanization, but balkanization is always devolution

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Supranationalism

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Political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation among national states to promote shared objectives

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Race

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Identity with a group that share a biological ancestor (skin color)

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Ethnicity

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A common cultural identity with a group of people with the same homeland or hearth

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Chokepoint

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geographic locations where the flow of people and goods can be constricted and choked off in the event of a conflict

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Apartheid

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South Africa’s segregation between white and black people 1990-1994

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democratization

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the spread of representative government to more countries and the process of making governments more representative

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irridentism

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A political movement that intends to reunite a nation or reclaim a lost territory.

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ethnic enclave

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A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area

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ethnic separatism

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When minority’s fight for independence

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ethnoburb

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A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population

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ethnonationalism

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nationalism that regard ethnicity and ethnic ties as core components of conceptions and experiences of the “nation”

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exclave

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a territorial state that is separated by another state but belongs to one state

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exclusive economic zone

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a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources

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failed state

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a state within which the government has lost the ability to provide the most basic of public services.

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federal state

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A country where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other smaller, regional authorities

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forward capital

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a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons

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multi-ethnic state

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A state that contains more than one ethnicity

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nationality

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Identity with group sharing legal attachment to a particular country (ex. American)

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quasi-state

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a political entity that does not represent a fully institutionalised or autonomous sovereign state.

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