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12320677215multinational stateState that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.0
12320700744nationalityIdentity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.1
12320709177nationalismA strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country2
12320722964multi-ethnic stateA state that contains more than one ethnicity3
12427002135SharecropperA 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.4
12427004612centripetal forceAn attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state5
12427008667ApartheidLaws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.6
12427011587Self-determinationConcept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves7
12427013985Triangular 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.8
12427019320raceIdentity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.9
12427021778BalkanizationProcess by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities10
12427030379BlockbustingA process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood11
12427032706EthnicityIdentity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.12
12427034733ethnic cleansingProcess in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region13
12427034734racistA person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.14
12427045749nation-stateA state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality15
12427045750RacismBelief that one race is superior to another16
12427050397Self-determinationConcept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves17

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