KBAT 7 - Ethnicity/Identity
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ConnorJMcClain on January 4, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. |
| Balkanization | The process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units |
| Blockbusting | Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods. In the resulting outmigration, real estate agents profit through the turnover of properties. |
| Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
| Centrifugal Force | Forces that tend to divide a country. |
| 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 | The mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area |
| Multi-Ethnic state | State that contains more than one 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 | The status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization |
| Nation-state | A country who's population share a common identity. |
| Part nation state | Single nation spread across several states |
| Part nation state | Single nation spread across several states |
| Race | People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock |
| Racism | discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race |
| Self Determination | the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will |
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