The Cultural Landscape Chapter 7: Ethnicity

Ethnicity

identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

race

identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor

triangular slave trade

an efficient triangular trading pattern

racism

the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

racist

person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

blockbusting

real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property value to decline

Apartheid

the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas

Nationality

identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country

nation-state

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

self-determination

concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

nationalism

loyalty and devotion to a nationality

centripetal force

attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

multiethnic state

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

multinational states

contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

Balkanized

widely used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other

Balkanization

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