Ethnicity:

27. Redlining

  • Banks, home loans

  • Discrimination against African Americans

  • External segregation force

  • Caused lack of investment wealth

  • Resulted in long term poverty


28. Assimilation

  • The process through which people lose originality, differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.


29. Rwanda

  • Hutu v. Tutsi

  • More than a 1 million lives lost

  • Origin of the conflict can be traced to colonial rule

  • Rwanda Genocide 

    • April 9th to July 19, 1994

    • Between Tutsi ethnic group and moderate Hutu and Twa


30. Sri Lanka

  • Tamil v. Sinhalese

  • Caused mass migration of both groups

  • Most of the world ignored the conflict 

  • Sri Lanka Civil War

    • 1983 - 2009

    • Between Sri Lankan Government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam