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19 Cards in this Set
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Ethnic Group
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A group of people that shre the same language, customs, and a common heritage.
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Stateless Nation
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a nation of people that does not have a territory to legally occupy, like the Palestinians, Kurds , and Basques.
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Nation-state
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The name of a territory when a nation and a state occupy the same territory.
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Dialect
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A version of a language that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes.
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Economy
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The production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people.
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Economic System
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The way people produce and exchange goods.
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Caste System
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The Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste though reincarnation.
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Acculturation
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The cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society acceptor adopt an innovation.
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Rai
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A kind of popular Algerian music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children that is fast-paced with danceable rhythms: was sometimes used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness.
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Yurts
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A tent of Central Asia's nomads.
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Anti-Semitism
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Discrimination against Jewish people.
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Sweatshop
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A workplace where people work long hours for low pay under poor conditions to enrich manufacturers.
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Nelson Mandela
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One of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the 1st all-race election in South Africa.
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Gandhi
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Indian political leader who served as prime minister (1966-1977 and 1980-1984). She was assassinated by Sikh extremists.
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Dalai Lama
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The traditional governmental ruler and highest priest of the dominant sect of Buddhism in Tibet and Mongolia, understood by Tibetans to be the living incarnation of the bodhisattva of compassion.
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader
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Kashmir
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an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
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Tibet
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an Asian country under the control of China; located in the Himalayas
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Chechnya
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an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic.
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