________ is when a country maintains strong ties with more than one country and often that is a result of the social and business connection with their homeland.
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Segregation
________ is when ethnic groups us bit divided between the rest of the population.
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Natural selection
________ favours the transmission of characteristics that allows humans to adapt to their environment such as climate.
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Territorial isolation
________ strengthens ethnic separatism as they retain their identification.
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Race
________ is an outdated categorization of humans based on outward physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, or eye colour or shape.
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Ethnocentrism
________ is the tendency to evaluate other cultures from the standards of ones own.
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Xenophobia
________ is the fear of foreigners on the part of the host society.
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assimilation
When a(n) ethnic group can not be distinguished from society
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later 20th century
Immigration in the ________ affected the broad regional ethnic makeup of the states.
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residential dissimilarity index
The ________ indicates the separation of the population in urban neighborhoods.
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Amalgamation theory
________ is the formal term for the traditional "melting pot "concept of the merging of many immigrant ethnic heritages into a composite American mainstream.
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Indigenous community
The ________ were never a single ethnic or cultural group.
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Québec City
________ is the cultural heart of French Canada.
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NYC
Each Weekend in May, ________ celebrates its ethnic diversity by closing a street and a million or so people come to try foods from different cultures and dance to other music.
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Genetic drifts
________ are when a group is isolated from its members for too long they begin to develop other traits.
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cultural norms
The English became the charter group when they arrived and established ________ and standards against the other immigrant groups.
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Hispanic Americans
________ are a diverse group of those with a Spanish origin.
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process of acculturation
The ________ is the adoption of attitudes, behavior, speech and other things that the immigrants pick up.
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Ethnic companies
________ are not permanent; they become mixed over generations and lose their identity within 3- 4 generations.
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Immigrant groups
________ measure the social distance between the minority and the charter group.
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Indigenous ethnic groups
________ have developed over time in specific locations and, through ties of kinship, language, culture, religion, and shared history, have established themselves in their own and others eyes as distinctive peoples with defined homeland areas.
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Early ghettos
________ were neighborhoods in Rome where the Jews lived, or New Orleans before the civil war where many black people lived.
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African Americans
________ were confined to rural areas of the South and South- East before the civil war.
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Ethnic cleansing
________ is a polite word for genocide.
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Minorities group
________ themselves because it provides defense, support, preservation and group assertion.
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Spatial assimilation
________ is measured by the degree of residential segregation that sets off the minority group from the larger general community.
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Racial categorization
________ is an outdated way of understanding human variation.
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Race
________ has nothing to do with human characteristics and it can not be connected with nationality or ethnicity.
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