Ethnicity - AP Human Geography Flashcards

8543958864	ethnicity	Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.	0
8543958865	nationality	Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state	1
8543958866	race	Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.	2
8543958867	racism	A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race.	3
8543958868	genocide	The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.	4
8543958869	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.	5
8543958870	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.	6
8543958871	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	7
8543958872	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.	8
8543958873	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.	9
8543958874	Kurds	The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.	10
8543958875	Indian partition of 1947	British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan	11
8543958877	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.	12
8543958878	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.	13
8543958879	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.	14
8543958882	Ethnicity	A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race.	15
8543958883	Ethnic cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.	16
8543958884	Genocide	(n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.	17
8543958885	Multiethnic State	A state that contains more than one ethnicity.	18
8543958887	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group.	19
8543958888	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.	20
8543958889	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.	21
8543958890	Part nation state	When a nation overlaps the boundaries of multiple states/you have multiple nations states of the same the same nation (Arabia).	22
8543958891	Race	Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.	23
8543958892	Racism	Belief that one race is superior to another.	24
8543958893	Racist	A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.	25
8543958894	Self determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.	26
8543958895	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.	27
8543958896	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.	28
8543958897	White flight	The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.	29
8543958898	Ghetto	A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure	30
8543958899	Ethnic Enclave	A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area.	31
8543958900	Ethnoburb	A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group.	32