Key terms from chapter 7 of The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography (8th edition) by James M. Rubenstein.
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| Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | ||
| Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 environment. | ||
| An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | ||
| Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region. | ||
| Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | ||
| State that contains more than one ethnicity. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Loyalty and devotion to a particular 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. | ||
| A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | ||
| Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | ||
| Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences product an inherent superiority of a particular race. | ||
| A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | ||
| Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. |
