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share a cultural identity with people from the same homeland or hearth/ history
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Ch 7 AP H GEO Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| from the Greek word ethnikos meaning "people, multitude, nation" | ethnicity |
| share a cultural identity with people from the same homeland or hearth/ history | ethnicities |
| the belief that your ethnic group is superior to others | ethnocentrism |
| when 1 ethnic group blends into another and loses its own unique attributes | assimilation |
| adopting some or all of the characteristics of another, dominate culture group | acculturation |
| an equal two-way flow between culture groups | transculturation |
| the dominant first arrivals establishing the cultural norms and standards against which other immigrant groups were measured | charter groups |
| Who is the charter group for the US? | British |
| Who is the charter group for Louisiana? | French |
| ethnic enclaves | small areas inhabited by particular ethnic groups found in urban areas |
| can hint at the presence of an ethnic enclave | toponyms |
| What are some examples of toponyms? | Polish Hill or Chinatown |
| a dispersed area of ethnic concentration in rural areas | Ethnic Islands |
| percentage of Hispanics in US | 15% |
| percentage of African Americans in US | 13% |
| percentage of Asian Americans in US | 4% |
| percentage of Native Americans in US | 1% |
| things that are learned | nurture |
| Why is the highest concentration of Hispanics in the SW US? | It is the closest you can get to Latin America while still being in the US. |
| Why are the African Americans found in the pattern on the power point? | Slavery; After they were free they did not move (South); Other than South: Job opportunities in big cities that had many big factories |
| What might explain the Asian Americans' area of concentration?(On power point) | Closest place you can get to Asia. |
| What might explain the Native Americans clustered distribution? (On power point) | They were forced by the government to be there (Reservations) |
| a group of people who share a similar biological ancestor | race |
| the belief that one race is genetically superior to another | racism |
| was not learned | nature |
| After what case did the Supreme Court legalize racial segregation? | Plessy V. Ferguson 1896 |
| laws to keep the races seperated from one another, but they were supposed to have equal accommodations | Jim Crow Laws |
| What does "De facto" mean? | "In reality" |
| What does "De Jure" mean? | "Of the law" |
| What case resulted in "Separate but Equal" being overturned and schools being integrated? | Brown V. Board of Education 1954 |
| Instead of integrating, whites left the cities and moved to suburbs. What is this called? | White flight |
| real-estate agents convince whites to sell their homes to them cheaply, because blacks are moving into their neighborhoods | blockbusting |
| South Africa was colonized by whom in the 17th century? What were they called? | Dutch; Afrikaans |
| the physical separation of the races in South Africa | apartheid |
| In South Africa, babies were classified as 1 of what 4 races? | black, white, colored(mixed), or Asian |
| Who was South Africa's first black president? | Nelson Mandela |
| the population is represented by a single culture all born in the same place | nation |
| **NOT ALL NATIONS HAVE A STATE** | |
| What is a nation that does not have a state? | The Kurds |
| Where do the largest number of Kurds live? | Turkey |
| a state whose territory corresponds to territory occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | Nation-State |
| choosing their own destiny | self-determination |
| **NATION-STATES ARE STATES INHABITED BY 1 ETHNIC GROUP** | |
| What region is mostly inhabited by Nation-States? | Western Europe |
| loyalty and devotion to your nationality | nationalism |
| brings people together within a particular country | centripetal force |
| What is an example of symbols of nationalism? | flags and songs |
| What can nationalism foster? | negative images of other nation states |
| tear a country apart | centrifugal |
| have multiple nations which practice self-determination within them | multinational states |
| What is an example of a multinational state? | the UK |
| What is currently the largest Multinational State? | Russia |
| a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region | ethnic cleansing |
| people that were in America first | Native Americans |
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