AP Human Geography - Unit 5: Ethnicity and Political Geography

Flashcards covering key terms and concepts from Unit 5 of AP Human Geography.

What is Ethnic Geography?

What is the study of the spatial distribution of ethnicities and their interactions?

What is Ethnicity?

What is a group of people who share a common cultural identity?

What is Ethnocentrism?

What is the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group?

What is Acculturation?

What is a process in which a minority ethnic group adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture?

What is Assimilation?

What is the complete blending of an ethnic group into the host society?

What is an Ethnic Enclave?

What is a neighborhood dominated by a specific ethnic group?

What is Ethnic Cleansing?

What is the forced removal of an ethnic group from a particular area?

What is Genocide?

What is the systematic killing of a particular ethnic group?

What is a Nation-State?

What is a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality?

What is Nationalism?

What is loyalty and devotion to a nationality?

What is a Boundary Dispute?

What is a conflict arising from a dispute over territory between two ethnic groups?

What is Balkanization?

What is the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities?