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APHG Ethnicity Vocab
Chapter 7 Ethnicity Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | refers to a group of people who share a common identity |
| Diaspora | experiences of people who come from a common ethnic background but live in different regions or ethnic neighborhoods |
| Charter Group | the first ethnic group to establish cultural norms in an area |
| Ethnic Enclaves | a relatively small area occupied by a distinct culture or ethnicity which largely results from chain migration |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | concentrations of people from the same ethnicity in certain pockets of the city |
| Ethnic Provinces | when entire regions become associated with ethnic or racial aggregations |
| Ethnic Islands | small, rural areas settled by a single ethnic group as opposed to ethnic neighborhoods or enclaves, which are urban |
| Syncretism | the development of a new cultural trait as a result of the fusion of two distinct but interacting cultures |
| Social Distance | measure of the perceived differences between an immigrant ethnic group and the charter or host society |
| Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide | cleansing involves the effort to rid a country or region of everyone a particular ethnicity either through forced migration or genocide |
| Apartheid | the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
| Balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities -- as a threat to peace throughout the world, not just in a small area |
| Balkanized | used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stale states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other |
| Blockbusting | when regal estate agents convinced 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 |
| Centripetal Force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Multinational State | contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determinism that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| Nationalism | a loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
| Nationality | identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
| Nation-State | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| Race | identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
| 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 |
| Self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| Sharecropper | a person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
| Triangular Slave Trade | an efficient triangular trading pattern |
| Multi-ethnic State | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
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