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| 261148785 | Apartheid | laws in south africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. no longer in effect. | |
| 261148786 | Balkanization | process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | |
| 261148787 | 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. | |
| 261148788 | centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | |
| 261148789 | ethnic cleansing | process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region. | |
| 261148790 | ethnicity | identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | |
| 261148791 | multiethnic state | state that contains more than one ethnicity. | |
| 261148792 | 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. | |
| 261148793 | nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. | |
| 261148794 | nationality | identitiy with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. | |
| 261148795 | nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | |
| 261148796 | race | identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | |
| 261148797 | racism | belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. | |
| 261148798 | racist | a person who subscribed to the beliefs of racism. |
