AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 7 vocab – Flashcards
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Apartheid
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a legal system that was the physical speration of different races into different geographic areas
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Balkanization
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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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Blockbusting
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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
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Centripital Force
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an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
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Centrifugal Force
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a force that divides people and countries
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Ethnicity
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Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
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multi-ethnic state
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a state that contains more than on ethnicity.
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multinational state
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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.
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nationalism
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love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
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nationality
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Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
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nation state
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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
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part nation state
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kind of a nation state
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race
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Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
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racism
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Belief that one racial group is superior to another
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self-determination
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the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
