Chapter 7

Question 1

Ethnicity

Answer 1

A sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group

Question 2

Origin Myth

Answer 2

A story told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity. Not a falsehood but has meaning

Question 3

Ethnic Boundary Markers

Answer 3

A practice or belief, such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not

Question 4

Genocide

Answer 4

The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group

Question 5

Ethnogenesis

Answer 5

When part of an existing group splits off or two groups form a new one

Question 6

Situation Negotiation of identity

Answer 6

An individual’s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location

Question 7

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 7

Efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area

Question 8

Melting pot

Answer 8

A metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

The process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups

Question 10

Multiculturalism

Answer 10

A pattern of ethnic relations in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture and yet retain an ethnic culture

Question 11

State

Answer 11

An autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory

Question 12

Nation-state

Answer 12

A political entity, located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people (Newer than state)

Question 13

Nation

Answer 13

A term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangeably with nation-state

Question 14

Nationalism

Answer 14

The desire of an ethnic community to create and / or maintain a nation-state

Question 15

Imagined community

Answer 15

The invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never meet