ethnicity (chapter 5)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Adaptive strategy | The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical enviroment to provide neccesties of life, |
| barrio | a sapnish speaking town or neighboorhood |
| cultural shatterbelt | a politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict. |
| ethnic cleanising | forcing pepole from a different enthnic group to leave their home |
| ethnic conflict | conflict based on ethnic differences and a sense of nationalism |
| ethnic enclave | a cluster of an ethnic population |
| ethnic group | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
| ethnic homeland | inhabited by an ethnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of political and social control over it |
| ethnic landscape | area of land with the same culture |
| ethnicity | affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture |
| ethnic neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background. example is a barrio |
| ethnocentrism | the belief that one's own culture or way of life is superior to all others. |
| ghetto | a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |
| plural society | a society in which different cultural groupls keep their own identity, beliefs, and traditions |
| segregation | the practice of keeping people in separate groups based on their race or culture |
| social distance | the extent to which members of one culture have contact with members of another culture |
| dowry death | in context of arranged indian marriges ,disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom. in some cases brides have died because of this |
| enfranchisement | the granting of citizenship and the right to vote |
| gender | social diffrences between men and women,rather than the anatomical,biological diffrences between the sexes |
| gender gap | The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and women. |
| infanticide | practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant; occurs sometimes in peripheral and poor regions as a form of population control or as a sex-selective practice (e.g., the One-Child Policy of China has led to larger female infant mortality rates and abandonment due to the preference of male children). |
| longevity gap | the gap between the life expectancy of men and women |
| maternal mortality rate | Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth. |
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