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Ethincity- LeBlanc

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Apartheid   laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically seperated different races into different geographic areas  
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Balkanization   process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities  
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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 toward eachother  
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Blockbusting   a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood  
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Centripetal force   an attitude that tends to unify people and inhance support for a state  
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Ethnicity   identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions  
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Ethnic cleansing   process in which more powerful ethnic groups forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region  
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Multi-ethnic state   state that contains more than one ethnicity  
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Multinational state   a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to co-exist peacefully by recognizing eachother as distinct nationalities  
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Nationalism   loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality  
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Nationality   Identitiy with a group of people that share legal attatchment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there  
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Nation-state   a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality  
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Race   Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor  
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Racism   Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and compacities and the racial differences produced an inherent superiority of a particular race  
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Racist   A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism  
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Self-determination   concept that ethnicites have the right to govern themselves  
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Sharecropper   a person who works feilds rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the drops  
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Triangular slavetrade   a practice, primarily during the eighteenth 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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