| Question |
Answer |
| Ethnicity |
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. |
Weston Sandfort
on 2009-02-08
Buen Viaje lv.2 ch 8
