AP Human Geography Ethnicity Flashcards

13171279566	ethnicity	Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.	0
13171279567	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.	1
13171279568	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	2
13171279569	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.	3
13171279581	Genocide	(n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.	4
13171279582	Multiethnic State	A state that contains more than one ethnicity.	5
13171279583	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.	6
13171279584	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group.	7
13171279585	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.	8
13171279586	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.	9
13171279587	Race	Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.	10
13171279588	Racism	Belief that one race is superior to another.	11
13171279589	Racist	A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.	12
13171279590	Self determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.	13
13171279591	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.	14
13171279592	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.	15
13171279593	White flight	The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.	16
13171279570	Ghetto	A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure	17
13171279571	Ethnic Enclave	A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area.	18
13171279572	Ethnoburb	A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group.	19
13171279573	nationality	Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state	20
13171279574	race	Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.	21
13171279575	racism	A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race.	22
13171279576	genocide	The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.	23
13171279577	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.	24
13171279578	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.	25
13171279579	Kurds	The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.	26
13171279580	Indian partition of 1947	British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan	27
13171279594	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.	28
13171279595	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.	29
13171279596	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.	30
13171279597	Centripetal force	An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.	31
13171279598	Centrifugal force	A force that divides people and countries.	32
13171279599	Ethnicity	A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race.	33
13171279600	Ethnic cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.	34