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AP Human Geo Ch 7
rubenstein vocab
Question | Answer |
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Laws(no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | Apartheid |
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | Balkanization |
A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one of more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other. | Balkanized |
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. | Blockbusting |
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | Centripetal force |
Identity with a group of people that share distinctive physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | Ethnicity |
Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous group. | Ethnic Cleansing |
State that contains more than one ethnicity. | Multi-ethnic state |
contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities | Multinational State |
loyalty and devotion to a nationality | Nationalism |
is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country | Nationality |
a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | Nation-State |
identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor | Race |
the belief that race is primarily determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race | Racism |
a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism | Racist |
the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | Self-determination |
works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of crops | Sharecropper |
an efficient triangular trading pattern | Triangular Slave Trade |