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Ch. 7 Vocab
Ch. 7 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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apartheid | the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
balkanized | widely used to describe 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 |
blockbusting | a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood |
centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct |
ethnic cleansing | process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
multi-ethnic state | state that contains more than one ethnicity |
multinational state | state that contains 2 or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |