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Ethnicity - AP Human Geography Flashcards

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8543958864ethnicityCultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.0
8543958865nationalityIdentity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state1
8543958866racePhysical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.2
8543958867racismA belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race.3
8543958868genocideThe mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.4
8543958869ethnic cleansingA process in which a more powerful ethnic group attempts to remove a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.5
8543958870ApartheidSeparation 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.6
8543958871segregationSeparation 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 1960s7
8543958872RwandaAn 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.8
8543958873Hispanic/Latino/Latinaa 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.9
8543958874KurdsThe largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.10
8543958875Indian partition of 1947British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan11
8543958877BalkanizationProcess by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.12
8543958878BalkanizedA 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.13
8543958879BlockbustingA 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.14
8543958882EthnicityA social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race.15
8543958883Ethnic cleansingProcess in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.16
8543958884Genocide(n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.17
8543958885Multiethnic StateA state that contains more than one ethnicity.18
8543958887NationalismA strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group.19
8543958888NationalityIdentity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.20
8543958889Nation-stateA state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.21
8543958890Part nation stateWhen a nation overlaps the boundaries of multiple states/you have multiple nations states of the same the same nation (Arabia).22
8543958891RaceIdentity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.23
8543958892RacismBelief that one race is superior to another.24
8543958893RacistA person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.25
8543958894Self determinationConcept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.26
8543958895SharecropperA 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.27
8543958896Triangular Slave TradeA 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.28
8543958897White flightThe departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.29
8543958898GhettoA section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure30
8543958899Ethnic EnclaveA place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area.31
8543958900EthnoburbA suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group.32

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