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18 Cards in this Set
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Apartheid
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Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
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Balkanization
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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
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Balkanized
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A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.
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Blockbusting
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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the environment.
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Centripetal Force
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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
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Ethnicity
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Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
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Multi-Ethnic State
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State that contains more than one ethnicity.
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Multinational State
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State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
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Nationalism
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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.
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Nationality
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Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
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Nation-State
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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
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Race
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Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
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Racism
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Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences product an inherent superiority of a particular race.
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Racist
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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
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Self-Determination
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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
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Sharecropper
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A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
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Triangular Slave Trade
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A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.
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