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Race and Ethnicity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A sense of belonging--who you are | identity |
| Physical characteristics resulting from minor genetic variations among human populations. | race |
| identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth | ethnicity |
| evaluating other cultures according to the standards of one's own culture | ethnocentrism |
| the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities; often leads to the assumption that one race is better than others | racism |
| Identity based on loyalty and attachment to a particular country | nationality |
| loyalty and devotion to a nationality | nationalism |
| the acceptance and celebration of many different cultural and/or ethnic traditions within one nationality | multiculturalism |
| the suppression of ethnic traditions in favor of the majority culture | assimilation |
| country that controls Tibet today | China |
| exiled leader of Tibet whose portrait is not allowed there today | The Dalai Lama |
| greater loyalty to a particular ethnic group within a country than to the country itself | ethnic nationalism |
| loyalty to a country rather than a particular ethnic group within the country | political nationalism |
| term used to describe someone who traces their origins to a Spanish-speaking country | Hispanic |
| ethnic group that is concentrated in the southeast and in northern cities | African Americans |
| State with the highest concentration of Asians | Hawaii |
| the Four Corners region of the United States is home to a significant number of people identifying with this ethnicity | Native American |
| Hispanics are clustered in this region of the US | southwest |
| the two major factors driving clustering of ethnic groups in certain neighborhoods | kinship links and availability of services tailored to a particular ethnicity |
| the highest concentrations of African Americans in the south are found in areas where this was once practiced | plantation agriculture |
| system of farming in which farmers rent land and give landlords a part of their crop as payment | sharecropping |
| a major reason why sharecropping declined during the first few decades of the 20th century | farm machinery |
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