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Rubenstein Ch. 7
Ethnicity Key Issue 2 and 3
Question | Answer |
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nationality | the identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
nation state | the state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
nationalism | loyalty and devotion to 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 |
multi-national states | contain 2 ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. |
Ethnicities clashing | Ethnicities within a nation fight in civil wars to dominate. |
Horn of Africa | Severe problems in Ethiopia and Eritrea with etchinicities clashing |
Sudan | Government has laws segregating sexes in public. Black southerners resisting attempts to make all of the country Muslim. |
Somalia | Islamic militias have overtaken control from warlords. |
Ethnicities spread throughout several states | South Asia |
Sri Lanka | The Tamils and Sinhalese have been fighting since 1983. Over 60,000 have died. |
Ethnic disputes | Pakistan argues that Kashmirs on both sides of the border should choose their own future. Thinks they would break away from India. |