309106959 | State | a politically organized body of people under a single government | |
309106960 | nation | cultural concept defines group of people of the same culture occupying a certain particular territory | |
309106961 | nation-state | a state whose territories extent coincide with that occupied by a distinct nation or people | |
309106962 | race | identity within a group of people who share a common biological ancestor | |
309106963 | part nation state | nation is dispersed across and is predominant in 2 or more state | |
309106964 | state-less nation | people without a nation | |
309106965 | ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share a common culture, tradition of a particular homeland or hearth | |
309106966 | racism | belief that race is primarily determined by the human trait, capacities and that racial differences produce an inherit superiority of a particular race | |
309106967 | Blockbusting | real estate agents convincing white people who live in a primarily black neighborhood to sell their houses at a lower price, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into these areas and property value would decline | |
309106968 | charter group | early arriving ethnic group that created the first effective settlement and established the recognized culture norms | |
309106969 | ethnic enclave | small area occupied by a district minority culture | |
309106970 | ethnic group | people sharing a distinctive culture, frequently based on common national origin, religion, language or race | |
309106971 | ethnic island | small rural are settled by a single distinctive ethnic group that placed it imprint on the landscape | |
309106972 | ethnic province | large territory urban and rural dominated by or closely associated with a single ethnic group | |
309106973 | Ethnocentrism | conviction of the evident superiority of one's own ethnic group | |
309106974 | first effective settlement | influence that the characteristics of an early dominated settlement group extent on the later social and cultural geography of an area | |
309106975 | social distance | voluntary or enforced segregation of 2 or more distinctive social groups or activities | |
309106976 | centripetal | a force or a characteristic that units a country together | |
309106977 | centrifugal | a force or a characteristic that breaks a country apart | |
309106978 | self-determination | concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | |
309106979 | nationalism | loyalty or devotion to a nationality | |
309106980 | multi-ethnic state | state that contains more than 1 ethnicity | |
309106981 | ethnic cleansing | process in which a more powerful ethnicity forcibly removes a less powerful ethnicity to create an ethnic homogeneous region | |
309106982 | balkanized | A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other | |
309106983 | balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | |
309106984 | triangular slave trade | trade with slaves among three ports or regions | |
309117490 | apartheid | physical separation of different races in different geographic areas |
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