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Ethnicity
APHG Chapter 7: Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the adoption by which an ethnic group of enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially. | Acculturation |
| Generic modification making a population more fit for existence under specific environmental conditions | Adaption |
| in ethnic geography, the concept that multiethnic societies become a merger of the culture traits of their member groups | Amalgamation |
| Laws that physically separate different races into different geographical areas. | Apartheid |
| a two-part behavioral and structural process by which a minority population reduces or loses completely its identifying cultural characteristics and blends into the host society | Assimaltion |
| A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | Balkanized |
| process of integration into a common cultural life through acquisition of the sentiments, attitudes, and experiences of other groups | Behavorial Assimilation |
| An unethical real-estate practice by which realtors convince white property owners to sell their holdings at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood. | Blockingbusting |
| An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | Centripetal force |
| process by which migration movements from a common home area to a specific destination are sustained by links of friendship or kinship between first movers and later followers | Chain migration |
| in ethnic geography, an urban ethnic area serving as point of entry and temporary acculturation zone for a specific immigrant group | Colony |
| the readoption by later generations of culture traits and identities associated with immigrant forebears or ancestral homelands | Culture Rebound |
| a pattern of movement and settlement resulting from the collective action of distinctive social or ethnic group | Cluster Migration |
| purposeful policy designed by one ethnic group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic group from certain geographic areas. | Ethnic Cleansing |
| a small area occupies by a distinctive minority culture | Ethnic Enclave |
| the study of spatial distributions and interactions of ethnic groups and of the cultural characteristics on which they are based | Ethnice geography |
| a group of people who share a common ancestry and cultural tradition, often living as a minority in a larger city. | Ethnic group |
| a small rural area settled by a single, distinctive ethnic group that placed its imprint on the landscape | Ethnic Island |
| a large territory, urban and rural, dominated by or closely associated with a single ethnic group | Ethnic province |
| in plural societies, the early arriving ethnic group that created the first effective settlement and established the recognized cultural norms to which other, later groups expected to conform | Charter group |
| conviction of the evident superiority of one's own ethnic group | Ethnocentrism |
| An attitude that tends to divide people and decrease support for a state. | Centrifugal force |
| ethnic quality, affiliation with a group who's racial, cultural, religious, or linguistic characteristics or national origins distinguish it from a larger population within which it is found | Ethnicity |
| Discriminatory Action | |
| International Migration;Internal Migration;Forced Migration | Migratory pattern |
| Cultural Influence | |
| which is also known as gene migration, is when the alleles of genes are transferred from one population to another | Gene Flow |
| a chance modification of gene composition occurring in an isolated population and becoming accentuated through inbreeding | Gene Drift |
| a forced or voluntarily segregated residential area housing a racial, ethnic, or religious minority | Ghetto |
| the established and dominant society within which immigrant groups seek accommodation | host society |
| State that contains more than one ethnicity. | multi-ethnic state |
| Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. | nationalism |
| Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born here. | Nationality |
| A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | Nation-state |
| "Survival of the fittest | natural selection |
| Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor | race |
| The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. | racism |
| a measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population | segregation |
| The principle, in international law, that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference. | self-determination |
| 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 | Sharecopper |
| a measure of the perceived degree of social separation between individuals, ethnic groups, neighborhoods, or other groupings; the voluntary or enforced segregation of two or more distinct social groups for most activities | social distance |
| the distribution of immigrant ethnics among the groups and social strata of a host society,, but without their full behavioral assimilation into it | Structural assimilation |
| the degree of neighborhood racial or ethnic mixing that induces the former majority group to move and rapidly | tipping point |
| an efficient triangular trading pattern | triangular slave trade |
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