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| 12523937208 | 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....usually one' citizenship | 0 | |
| 12523940196 | Ethnicity | A social division based on cultural heritage | 1 | |
| 12523944502 | Race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics. | 2 | |
| 12523945507 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another | 3 | |
| 12523947037 | Nation | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. | 4 | |
| 12523948346 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 5 | |
| 12523951049 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. | 6 | |
| 12523952391 | multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than two ethnicities living amoungst eachother | 7 | |
| 12523958701 | Multi-national 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. | 8 | |
| 12523961215 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country | 9 | |
| 12523964175 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 10 | |
| 12523985927 | Ethnic cleansing (genocide) | the systematic killing, torturing, or removal of persons with the intention of eliminating a specific racial or ethnic group | 11 | |
| 12523987469 | Redlining | A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries. | 12 | |
| 12523988616 | Jim Crow Laws | Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites | 13 | |
| 12523990012 | Plessy v. Ferguson | a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal | 14 | |
| 12523991026 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 15 | |
| 12523998111 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | 16 | |
| 12523998112 | Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy. | 17 | |
| 12524002246 | centipetal force | factors that unit a nation/state | 18 | |
| 12524005360 | centrifugal force | a force that divides people and countries | 19 | |
| 12524011566 | Rwandan Genocide | The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. The conflict between the dominant Tutsis and the majority Hutus had gone on for centuries. | 20 | |
| 12524017992 | Yugoslavia breakup | 1990s balkan countries, due to religion and ethnicity forming...Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia | 21 | |
| 12524027553 | Sudan breakup | Division of Sudan (Muslims) with South Sudan (Christians) | 22 | |
| 12524031742 | Soviet Union (USSR) | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Russia and 14 surrounding nations with its capital in Moscow...balkanized beginning on the 1990s | 23 | |
| 12524038672 | United Kingdom (UK) | England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland | 24 |
