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23 Cards in this Set
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Ethnicity |
Ethnicity is more cultural and flexible than race is and most people identify as multiple ethnicties |
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Race |
Your race is physical and biological and most people usually identify as one race therefore making it unitary. |
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What are distinct parts of ethnicity |
Languages Culinary traditions Religion Customs and traditions |
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How are race and ethnicity similar |
They are social constructs so they are invented by people to put different types of people into different categories. |
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How do we count races/ethnicities in the U.S. |
We count them by taking a census on religion, poverty, race. |
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Largest ethnic groups in the U.S. |
Hispanic: 18% African American: 13% Asian American: 8% |
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Where are the different races distributed Regional Scale |
Hispanics: clustered in the southwest African Americans: clustered in the southeast Asian Americans: clustered in the westcoast |
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Where are different races distributed Local Scale |
African Americans and Hispanics are clustered in urban areas |
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International Migration |
Most African Americans are related to people that experienced forced migration due to slavery. That is why they are clustered in the southeast U.S. |
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segragation |
de jure is segragation by law and de facto is by social or cultural norms. |
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What affects ethnic distribution |
entrance point, origin, internal, migrations, legal or social factors |
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Redlining |
Banks refused loans to African Americans and anybody who lived near a predominantly African American community. |
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Segregation nowadays |
It happens due to financial, historical, or social factors. |
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Nationality |
An identity of a group of people that show a legal attachment to a country |
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centripetal forces |
unifies groups/states |
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centrifugal forces |
divides groups/states |
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Why do ethnicities have conflict? |
territory and ideals are the main reason, but it is always more centrifugal than centripetal forces. |
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Diaspora Kurds |
The Kurds are an ethnicity that doesn't have a nation. They are spread out all over the place and they are struggling to remain distinct, which is causing a war with other ethnicities. |
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Ethiopia and Eritrea |
These two places had a Civil War in 1999 and they became separate states, but their has been a lot of border clashes. |
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India and Pakistan |
Britain controlled India for a long time, but then India won its independence it became two countries India and Pakistan. |
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ethnic cleansing |
When one ethnic group forcibly moves a less powerful ethnic group to make a homogeneous region |
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genocide |
The mass killing of a group of people to remove them from existence |
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Borders and conflict |
In places like the Middle East and Africa people create boarders that can lead to massive conflicts. |
