AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 7 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Apartheid | a legal system that was the physical speration of different races into different geographic areas |
| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| Blockbusting | 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 neighborhood. |
| Centripital Force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Centrifugal Force | a force that divides people and countries |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. |
| Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than on ethnicity. |
| multinational state | 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. |
| nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. |
| nation state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| part nation state | kind of a nation state |
| race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. |
| racism | Belief that one racial group is superior to another |
| self-determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
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