Identity with a group of people who share the same cultural traditions.
Race
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.
Triangular Slave Trade
An efficient triangular trading pattern.
Sharecropper
Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Racism
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherit superiority of a particular race.
Racist
One who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
Blockbusting
When real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their homes at low prices.
Apartheid
Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas.
Nationality
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
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 ti unify people and enhance support for a state.
Multi Ethnic state
A state with more than one ethnicity
Multinational State
Contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinctive nationalities.
Ethnic Cleansing
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region.
Balkanization
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
Balkanized
A small geographic area that can not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with hate of each other.
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