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Rubenstein Ch. 7
Ethnicity Key Issue 2 and 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nationality | the identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
| self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| nation state | the state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to nationality |
| centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| multi-national states | contain 2 ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. |
| Ethnicities clashing | Ethnicities within a nation fight in civil wars to dominate. |
| Horn of Africa | Severe problems in Ethiopia and Eritrea with etchinicities clashing |
| Sudan | Government has laws segregating sexes in public. Black southerners resisting attempts to make all of the country Muslim. |
| Somalia | Islamic militias have overtaken control from warlords. |
| Ethnicities spread throughout several states | South Asia |
| Sri Lanka | The Tamils and Sinhalese have been fighting since 1983. Over 60,000 have died. |
| Ethnic disputes | Pakistan argues that Kashmirs on both sides of the border should choose their own future. Thinks they would break away from India. |