12320677215 | 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. | 0 | |
12320700744 | nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. | 1 | |
12320709177 | nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country | 2 | |
12320722964 | multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity | 3 | |
12427002135 | Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. | 4 | |
12427004612 | centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | 5 | |
12427008667 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 6 | |
12427011587 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 7 | |
12427013985 | Triangular Slave Trade | A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa. | 8 | |
12427019320 | race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | 9 | |
12427021778 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | 10 | |
12427030379 | 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 | 11 | |
12427032706 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | 12 | |
12427034733 | ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | 13 | |
12427034734 | racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | 14 | |
12427045749 | nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | 15 | |
12427045750 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another | 16 | |
12427050397 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 17 |
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