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Ch.7 Ethnicity Vocab
vocab words for ch.7 AP human
Question | Answer |
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ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
triangular slave trade | an efficient triangular trading pattern. ships left from europe to africa to the western hemisphere |
sharecropper | works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
race | identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
racism | the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
racist | a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
blockbusting | real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline |
apartheid | the physical separation of different races into geographic areas |
nationality | is identity with a group of people who share legal attachments and personal allegiance to a particular country |
self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
multinational states | contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
ethnic cleansing | is a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
balkanized | 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 towards each other |
balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through out conflicts among its ethnicites- as a threat to peace through out the world, not just in a small area |