UNIT FIVE Vocab Flashcards
Barrio: is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood. The word has come into use in English mostly through large Hispanic populations on both coasts of the United States.
My definition: Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood, which became popular through Hispanics.
My example: I know a family named the Barrios and I think the etymology of this word is connected with the vocab.
Ethnic cleansing: at one end it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population exchange while at the other it emerges with deportation and genocide.
My definition: can be forced emigration or population exchange, but more often it leads to deportation or genocide.
My example: Rwanda genocide, Holocaust, and genocides in Bosnia, Turkey, and Poland are acts of ethnic cleansing in the most brutal way.
Ethnic neighborhood: a neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a large, surrounding area
My definition: surrounding inhabited area which retains some cultural distinction
My example: white and black neighborhoods are often distinct and separate because of blockbusting, prejudice, redlining, etc
Ghetto: during the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live by because of social, legal, or economic pressure
My Definition: neighborhood set up to be inhabited only by Jews but nowadays members of a minority group.
My Example: Neighborhood slums in Miami
Segregation: separation of people of different races or ethnic groups in schools, housing, public facilities for purposes of discrimination
My Definition: separation of different races or ethnic groups
My Example: Separate but equal, apartheid
Plural Society: a situation in which two or more culture groups occupy the same territory but maintain their separate cultural identities
My Definition: two or more culture groups occupy the same territory but maintain separate cultural identities
My Example: Hutus and Tutsis (before 1990s) lived in the same country of Rwanda but remained fairly distinct and resentful of each other
Ethnocentrism: regarding one’s own culture as being superior to others and judging other cultures from the perspective of your own culture
My Definition: regarding one’s own culture as superior to others
My Example: America for the win! Dominant culture of Soviet Union is Russian!
Cultural shatterbelt: a politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict
My Definition: differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict
My Example: India under imperial control of the British
Ethnic conflict: is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism. They are of interest because of the apparent prevalence since the Cold War and because they frequently result in war crimes such as genocide
My Definition: war between ethnic groups, which especially became prevalent since Cold War
My Example: Bosnian Muslims and Croats, Hutus and Tsutsis
Ethnic enclave: is a neighborhood, district, suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area. Sometimes an entire city may have such a feel. Usually the enclave revolves around businesses that are run by members of the community
My Definition: area with cultural distinction that can be the size of a neighborhood or even a city
My Example: Blacks in ethnic neighborhoods, Atlanta, and Gary, Indiana
Ethnic landscape: is an expression of people’s idea and work; illustrating intrinsic understanding and relationship of people to their fellow beings and environment
My Definition: expression of people’s idea and work
My Example: murals depicting daily life of Hispanics, Harlem Renaissance
Ethnic group: a group identified on the basis of religion, color or national origin
My Definition: a group identified on the basis of religion, color or national origin
My Example: Caucasian, Black, Pacific Islander, Asian, Christians
Ethnic homeland: is the concept of the territory to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with (the country in which a particular national identity began)
My Definition: concept of the territory to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association
My Example: Africa with many blacks before being transported as slaves over to America, and Britian to many early colonial settlers before independence and heavy influx of immigrants from other countries came along
