Ch.7 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Define: nationality
Identify with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country
Define; self determination
Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Define; nation-state
State whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a certain ethnicity that has been transformed into an ethnicity
Define; nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality
Define; race
Identity with a group of people who share biological ancestry
Define; racism
When you judge a person based on race instead of ethnicity
Define; blockbusting
Real estate bought house from whites for little money and sold house to black for alot
Define; apartheid
Separation of races in South Africa
Define; ethnic cleansing
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful ethnic group in order to create an ethically homogeneous group
Define; Balkanization
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
2 most numerous ethnicities
Hispanics and African Americans
Denmark is a good example of a European nation state because
The territory it occupied by the Danish ethnicity closely corresponds to the state of ethnicity
Denmark isn’t a good example of a nation-state because
It’s border doesn’t precisely split the Danish and Germans.
Nationalism is a
Centripetal force
_______ created Apartheid.
To _______.
The Boers- white control
_______ ________ was SouthAfricas first black president.
Nelson Mandela
Please vs. Ferguson caused _______.
The “Seperate but equal”
2 ways ethnicities are distributed
- Clustered in specific areas within a country
2. Area inhabited could closely match boundaries of a country.
Within a country; 2 scales of clusters
- Regions
2. Neighborhood
Largest forced migration
WWII
