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chapter 7 vocab
AP Human Geography: ch. 7 Ethnics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apartheid | laws, that are no longer in effect, in south Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |
| balkanization | a process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| balkanized | descriptive of 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 people of color will soon move into the neightborhood |
| centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| 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 |
| ethnicity | identify with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| genocide | the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
| nationality | indentity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
| race | identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor |
| racism | 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 |
| sharecropper | 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 |
| triangular slave trade | a practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa. |
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