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Ch.5 Grade Savers
Question | Answer |
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Acculturation | Less dominant culture comes in contact |
Amalgamation society | "melting pot theory" |
Apartheid | Physical separation of different races |
Assimilation | Final completion of the cultural acculturation process |
Balkanization | conflicts among ethnic groups` |
Blockbusting | Getting white families to sell houses |
Centrifugal Force | Forces from within a state that tend to divide it |
Centripetal force | Unifies people |
Environmental Racism | Likelihood that a racial minority population inhabits a polluted area |
Ethnic Cleansing | More powerful group forcible removes less powerful ethnic group |
Ethnic enclave | When an ethnic cluster does persist |
Ethnic Flag | Marker of ethnicity |
Ethnic Islands | Small dots in the countryside |
Ethnic Neighborhood | Area within a city same ethnic background |
Ethnic Provinces | Include French Canadians in Quebec |
Ethnicity | Identity with a group who share cultural traditions |
Ethnourbs | Suburban ethnic neighborhoods |
Genocide | Effort to kill everyone within a particular ethnic group |
Ghetto | Segregated ethnic area within a city |
Identifying against | first define the other define ourselves as not the other |
Identity | How we make sense of ourselves |
Minority | racial or ethnic group smaller than |
Multi-ethnic State | State that contains more than one ethnicity |
Multinational state | Two ethnic groups coexist peacefully |
Nationality | Identity with a group who shares legal attatchment |
Nation-state | Occupied by a particular ethnicity |
Race | Group of human beings distinguished by physical traits |
Racism | Race is the primary determinant of human traits |
Salad Bowl Theory | Integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad |
Segregation | Members of an ethnic group are not uniformly distributed in relation to the rest of the population. |