week 14 Flashcards
loyalty and devotion to nationality centripetal force
nationalism
identity with a group of ppl who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country
nationality
Sinhalese
Tamils
Moors
Sri Lanka
Christians
Muslims
Lebanon
Sunni Muslims who speak a language in the Iranian group of the indo-Iranian branch of indo- European and have distinctive literature, dress, and other cultural traditions
Kurds
process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less forceful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
ethnic cleansing
widely used to describe a small geographic area that couldn’t successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other
balkanized
The process by which a State breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
balkanization
mass killing of a group of people in attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence
genocide