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Ch.5 Grade Savers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | Less dominant culture comes in contact |
| Amalgamation society | "melting pot theory" |
| Apartheid | Physical separation of different races |
| Assimilation | Final completion of the cultural acculturation process |
| Balkanization | conflicts among ethnic groups` |
| Blockbusting | Getting white families to sell houses |
| Centrifugal Force | Forces from within a state that tend to divide it |
| Centripetal force | Unifies people |
| Environmental Racism | Likelihood that a racial minority population inhabits a polluted area |
| Ethnic Cleansing | More powerful group forcible removes less powerful ethnic group |
| Ethnic enclave | When an ethnic cluster does persist |
| Ethnic Flag | Marker of ethnicity |
| Ethnic Islands | Small dots in the countryside |
| Ethnic Neighborhood | Area within a city same ethnic background |
| Ethnic Provinces | Include French Canadians in Quebec |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group who share cultural traditions |
| Ethnourbs | Suburban ethnic neighborhoods |
| Genocide | Effort to kill everyone within a particular ethnic group |
| Ghetto | Segregated ethnic area within a city |
| Identifying against | first define the other define ourselves as not the other |
| Identity | How we make sense of ourselves |
| Minority | racial or ethnic group smaller than |
| Multi-ethnic State | State that contains more than one ethnicity |
| Multinational state | Two ethnic groups coexist peacefully |
| Nationality | Identity with a group who shares legal attatchment |
| Nation-state | Occupied by a particular ethnicity |
| Race | Group of human beings distinguished by physical traits |
| Racism | Race is the primary determinant of human traits |
| Salad Bowl Theory | Integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad |
| Segregation | Members of an ethnic group are not uniformly distributed in relation to the rest of the population. |