Chapter 7 Flashcards
Balkanization
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
Balkanized
A small geographic area that could not successfully organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long standing antagonisms toward each other.
Block-busting
When real estate agents convinced white home owners living near a black neighborhood to sell houses at low prices, then the agents sold the houses for more money to black families wanted to escape crowded ghettos. The neighborhood would change from all white to all black in months.
Centripetal Force
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
Ethnic cleansing
The mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
Multi-ethnic state
A state that contains more that one ethnicity.
Multi-nationality state
A state that contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
Nationality
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.
Nation-state
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
Race
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.
Racism
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Racist
A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
Self determination
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
