Ethnicity - AP Human Geography Flashcards
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| 7998880125 | ethnicity | Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. | 0 | |
| 7998880126 | nationality | Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state | 1 | |
| 7998880127 | race | Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor. | 2 | |
| 7998880128 | racism | A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race. | 3 | |
| 7998880129 | genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region. | 4 | |
| 7998880130 | 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 | |
| 7998880131 | 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 |
| 7998880132 | 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 |
| 7998880133 | 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 |
| 7998880134 | 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 |
| 7998880135 | Kurds | The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities. |  | 10 |
| 7998880136 | Indian partition of 1947 | British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan |  | 11 |
| 7998880137 | Apartheid | A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites. | 12 | |
| 7998880138 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | 13 | |
| 7998880139 | 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. | 14 | |
| 7998880140 | 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. | 15 | |
| 7998880141 | Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | 16 | |
| 7998880142 | Centrifugal force | A force that divides people and countries. | 17 | |
| 7998880143 | Ethnicity | A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race. | 18 | |
| 7998880144 | Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | 19 | |
| 7998880145 | Genocide | (n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 20 | |
| 7998880146 | Multiethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. | 21 | |
| 7998880147 | 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. | 22 | |
| 7998880148 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group. | 23 | |
| 7998880149 | 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. | 24 | |
| 7998880150 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | 25 | |
| 7998880151 | Part nation state | When a nation overlaps the boundaries of multiple states/you have multiple nations states of the same the same nation (Arabia). | 26 | |
| 7998880152 | Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | 27 | |
| 7998880153 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another. | 28 | |
| 7998880154 | Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | 29 | |
| 7998880155 | Self determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | 30 | |
| 7998880156 | 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. | 31 | |
| 7998880157 | 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. | 32 | |
| 7998880158 | White flight | The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities. | 33 | |
| 7998880159 | Ghetto | A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure | 34 | |
| 7998880160 | Ethnic Enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area. | 35 | |
| 7998880161 | Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group. | 36 | |
| 7998880162 | ethnicity | Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. | 37 | |
| 7998880163 | nationality | Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state | 38 | |
| 7998880164 | race | Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor. | 39 | |
| 7998880165 | racism | A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race. | 40 | |
| 7998880166 | genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region. | 41 | |
| 7998880167 | 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. | 42 | |
| 7998880168 | 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. | | 43 |
| 7998880169 | 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 | | 44 |
| 7998880170 | 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. | | 45 |
| 7998880171 | 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. | | 46 |
| 7998880172 | Kurds | The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities. | | 47 |
| 7998880173 | Indian partition of 1947 | British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan | | 48 |
| 7998880174 | Apartheid | A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites. | 49 | |
| 7998880175 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | 50 | |
| 7998880176 | 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. | 51 | |
| 7998880177 | 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. | 52 | |
| 7998880178 | Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | 53 | |
| 7998880179 | Centrifugal force | A force that divides people and countries. | 54 | |
| 7998880180 | Ethnicity | A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race. | 55 | |
| 7998880181 | Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | 56 | |
| 7998880182 | Genocide | (n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 57 | |
| 7998880183 | Multiethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. | 58 | |
| 7998880184 | 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. | 59 | |
| 7998880185 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group. | 60 | |
| 7998880186 | 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. | 61 | |
| 7998880187 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | 62 | |
| 7998880188 | Part nation state | When a nation overlaps the boundaries of multiple states/you have multiple nations states of the same the same nation (Arabia). | 63 | |
| 7998880189 | Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. | 64 | |
| 7998880190 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another. | 65 | |
| 7998880191 | Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | 66 | |
| 7998880192 | Self determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | 67 | |
| 7998880193 | 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. | 68 | |
| 7998880194 | 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. | 69 | |
| 7998880195 | White flight | The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities. | 70 | |
| 7998880196 | Ghetto | A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure | 71 | |
| 7998880197 | Ethnic Enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area. | 72 | |
| 7998880198 | Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group. | 73 |