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Ch. 7 Ethnicity
AP Human Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| Triangular Slave Trade | An efficient triangular trading pattern |
| Sharecropper | Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the tent 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 inherent superiority of a particular race |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| Blockbusting | Real estate agents convince white homeowners living near a black area to sell their homes at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline |
| Apartheid | The physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
| Nationality | Identity with a group of people who share a 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 | (ex. Nationalism) An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than one enthicity |
| Multinational states | Other multi-ethnic states that contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agress to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| 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 to each other |
| Balkanization | The progress which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Race | Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
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