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Ch. 7 Ethnicity
AP Human Geography
Question | Answer |
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Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
Triangular Slave Trade | An efficient triangular trading pattern |
Sharecropper | Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the tent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
Racism | The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
Blockbusting | Real estate agents convince white homeowners living near a black area to sell their homes at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline |
Apartheid | The physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
Nationality | Identity with a group of people who share a legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
Centripetal force | (ex. Nationalism) An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
Multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than one enthicity |
Multinational states | Other multi-ethnic states that contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agress to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
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 to each other |
Balkanization | The progress which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
Race | Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |