Ethnicity
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| 22483748 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | |
| 22483749 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | |
| 22483750 | 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 towards each other. | |
| 22483751 | Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. | |
| 22483752 | Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | |
| 22483753 | Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | |
| 22483754 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | |
| 22483755 | Multi-Ethnic State | States that contain more than one ethnicity. | |
| 22483756 | 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. | |
| 22483757 | Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality | |
| 22483758 | 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. | |
| 22483759 | Nation-State | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | |
| 22483760 | Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | |
| 22483761 | 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. | |
| 22483762 | Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | |
| 22483763 | Self-Determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | |
| 22483764 | 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. | |
| 22483765 | 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. |
