46992379 | Apartheid | a legal system that was the physical speration of different races into different geographic areas | |
46992380 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | |
46992381 | 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. | |
46992382 | Centripital Force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | |
46992383 | Centrifugal Force | a force that divides people and countries | |
46992384 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | |
46992385 | Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | |
46992386 | multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than on ethnicity. | |
46992387 | 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. | |
46992388 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | |
46992389 | 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. | |
46992390 | nation state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | |
46992391 | part nation state | kind of a nation state | |
46992392 | race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | |
46992393 | racism | Belief that one racial group is superior to another | |
46992394 | self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 7 vocab
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