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LP - Chapter 7
Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 7 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | Laws (No longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |
| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| 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 |
| Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| Multi-ethnic state | State that contains more than one ethnicity |
| Multinational State | State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
| 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 descended from a common ancestor |
| Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| Gender | Social differences between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes. Notions of gender differences-that is, what is considered “feminine” or “masculine”-vary greatly over time and space |
| Residential Segregation | Defined by geographers Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment. |
| Acculturation | Cultural modification or change that results when one culture group or individual adopts traits of a dominant or host society; cultural development or change through “borrowing”. |
| Amalgamation Theory | In ethnic geography, the concept that multiethnic societies become a merger of the culture traits of their member groups |
| Assimilation | A two-part behavioral and structural process by which a minority population reduces or loses completely its identifying cultural characteristics and blends into the host society |
| Behavioral (Cultural) Assimilation | The process of integration into a common cultural life through acquisition of the sentiments, attitudes, and experiences of other groups |
| Ethnic Enclave | A small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture |
| Ethnocentrism | Conviction of the evident superiority of one’s own ethnic group |
| Structural Assimilation | The distribution of immigrant ethnics among the groups and social strata of a host society, but without their full behavioral assimilation into it |
| Tipping Point | The degree of neighborhood racial or ethnic mixing that includes the former majority group to move out rapidly |
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