Ch. 7 Vocab Flashcards

1
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Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different geographic areas

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Apartheid

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its enthicities

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Balkanization

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

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Balkanized

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4
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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 mo into the neighborhood

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Blockbusting

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5
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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

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Centripetal Force

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6
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Process in which more powerful ethnic group foricibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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Ethnic Cleansing

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7
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Identity with a a group that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common hereditary and cultural traditions

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Ethnicity

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8
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State that contains more than one ethnicity

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Multiethnic State

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9
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State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing others as distinct nationalities

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Multinational State

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10
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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

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Nationalism

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied y a particular ethtinicity that has been transformed into a nationality

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Nation-State

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12
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Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor

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Race

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13
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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 pariticular race

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Racism

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14
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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

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Racist :-(

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15
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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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Self-Determination

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16
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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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Sharecropper

17
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A practice (primarily during the 18th century) in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean to Europe and trades goods from Europe and Africa

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Triangular Slave Trade

18
Q

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

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Nationality