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Chapter 7 Review
Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The geographic separation of races in South Africa | apartheid |
| The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities | balkanization |
| Forces that unify people and enhancces support for a state | centripetal force |
| Process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one | ethnic cleansing |
| State that contains more than one ethnicity | multiethnic state |
| State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully | multinational stte |
| Forces of disruption and dissolution threatening the unity of a state | centrifugal force |
| The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group | genocide |
| Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality | nationalism |
| A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | nation-state |
| Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor | race |
| Concept that ethnicities and nationalities have the right to govern themselves | self-determination |
| The most numerous ethnicity in the United States is | Latinos/Hispanics |
| African Americans are clustered in this region of the United States | Southeast |
| Asian Americans are clustered in this region of the United States | West |
| Latinos and Hispanics are clustered in this area of the United States | West & Southwest |
| The United States Census Bureau does not consider this group a race | Hispanic/Latino |
| Conflict in Africa is widespread because of the colonial boundaries and numerous _______________________ | ethnic groups |
| Large-scale migration occurred in South Asia after 1947 primarily because of the separation of ______________________ | religious groups |
| Traditionally the most important unit of African society was the | tribe |
| Sri Lanka has continuing ethnic conflict between Sinhalese Buddhists and _______________________________ | Tamil Hindus |
| This large group of people are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in every one | Kurds |
| Sudan's religion-based civil war was in the region of _________________ | Darfur |
| The breakup of this nation in the 1990s was caused by ethnic tensions and rivalries among nationalities | Yugoslavia |