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Chapter 7 APHumanGeo
Chapter 7 vocabulary for APHG.
Term | Definition |
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Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South America that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
Ethnic Cleaning | A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. |
Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. |
Multi-Ethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnic group. |
Multinational State | A state that contains two or more nationalities. |
Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. |
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. |
Nation-State | States whose territory corresponds to a particular ethnicity. |
Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor. |
Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race. |
Racist | A person who subscribes to beliefs of racism. |
Self-Determination | The process by which a country determines its own statehood and form its own allegiances and government. |
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. |