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| 9910621014 | ethnicity | Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. | 0 | |
| 9910621015 | Apartheid | Separation of races into geographic areas ("homelands"); Forced migration of blacks into "homelands"; Established in South Africa after independence from the British Empire and in effect until the 1990s. |  | 1 |
| 9910621016 | segregation | Separation of public life based on race; Laws established in the US Southern states after slavery and in effect until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s |  | 2 |
| 9910621017 | Rwanda | An East African country of 12 million with its capital at Kigali; Site of a 1994 genocide in which the majority Hutu ethnic group attempted to murder all the minority Tutsi ethnic groups. |  | 3 |
| 9910621029 | Genocide | (n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 4 | |
| 9910621030 | Multiethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. | 5 | |
| 9910621031 | 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. | 6 | |
| 9910621032 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group. | 7 | |
| 9910621033 | 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. | 8 | |
| 9910621034 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | 9 | |
| 9910621035 | Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | 10 | |
| 9910621036 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another. | 11 | |
| 9910621037 | Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | 12 | |
| 9910621038 | Self determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | 13 | |
| 9910621039 | 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. | 14 | |
| 9910621040 | 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. | 15 | |
| 9910621041 | White flight | The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities. | 16 | |
| 9910621018 | Ghetto | A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure | 17 | |
| 9910621019 | Ethnic Enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area. | 18 | |
| 9910621020 | Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group. | 19 | |
| 9910621021 | nationality | Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state | 20 | |
| 9910621022 | race | Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor. | 21 | |
| 9910621023 | racism | A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race. | 22 | |
| 9910621024 | genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region. | 23 | |
| 9910621025 | ethnic cleansing | A process in which a more powerful ethnic group attempts to remove a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | 24 | |
| 9910621026 | Hispanic/Latino/Latina | a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race; One of the largest ethnic minorities in the U.S. |  | 25 |
| 9910621027 | Kurds | The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities. |  | 26 |
| 9910621028 | Indian partition of 1947 | British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan |  | 27 |
| 9910621042 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | 28 | |
| 9910621043 | 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. | 29 | |
| 9910621044 | 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. | 30 | |
| 9910621045 | Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | 31 | |
| 9910621046 | Centrifugal force | A force that divides people and countries. | 32 | |
| 9910621047 | Ethnicity | A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race. | 33 | |
| 9910621048 | Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | 34 |
