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Geo ch.7
Ethnicities
Term | Definition |
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ethnicity | identity with a group sharing cultural traditions of homeland or hearth |
race | identity with a group perceived to share physiological traits like skin color |
nationality | identity with a group sharing legal attachment to a particular country |
ethnic enclave | a place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area |
ethnoburb | a suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population |
triangular slave trade | sent slaves from Africa to the Americas, molasses from the Caribbean to North America and Europe, rum from North America to Europe, and cotton from Europe to Africa |
blockbusting | the practice of persuading owners to sell property cheaply because of the fear of people of another race or class moving into the neighborhood, and thus profiting by selling at a higher price |
redlining | a discriminatory practice that puts services out of reach of residents of certain areas based on race or ethnicity |
apartheid | a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race (South Africa) |
nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
ethnic cleansing | the policy of one ethnicity or religious group to remove the civilian population of another ethnicity or religious group from a certain area |
genocide | the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire ethnic group from existence |
The Holocaust | an example of a past genocide |
ethnophobia | fear of people of a particular ethnicity |
xenophobia | fear of people who are from other countries |
balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
partition | the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts (especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) |