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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Chapter 7 ethnicity human geography vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| race | identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
| ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| triangular slave trade | a practice primarily in the 18th century in which european ships transported slaves from africa to carribean islands, molasses from the carrfibean to europe, and trade goods from europe to africa |
| sharecropper | works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by giving the landowner a share of crops |
| racism | belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority to a particular race |
| racist | person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| apartheid | physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
| blockbusting | a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood |
| nationality | identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a certain country |
| self-determinationq | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a certain ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationaltiy |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
| centripetal force | attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| multinational state | a state that contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to co-exist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| ethnic cleansing | a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| balkanized | a small geographic area that could not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicity with complex long-standing antagonisms toward each other |
| 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 |
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