Ethnicity Flashcards

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Apartheid

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Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic area

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Balkanization

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A process by which a state breaks down through

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Balkanized

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Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other

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Blockbusting

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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood

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Centripetal Force

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

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Ethnic Cleansing

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A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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Ethnicity

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Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions

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Genocide

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The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

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Nationality

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Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and person allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there

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Race

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Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor

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Racism

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Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

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Racist

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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

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Sharecropper

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A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops

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Triangular Slave Trade

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A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa

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