Ethnic Group
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- Ethnic Group
- A group of people that shre the same language, customs, and a common heritage.
- Stateless Nation
- a nation of people that does not have a territory to legally occupy, like the Palestinians, Kurds , and Basques.
- Nation-state
- The name of a territory when a nation and a state occupy the same territory.
- Dialect
- A version of a language that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes.
- Economy
- The production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people.
- Economic System
- The way people produce and exchange goods.
- Caste System
- The Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste though reincarnation.
- Acculturation
- The cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society acceptor adopt an innovation.
- Rai
- A kind of popular Algerian music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children that is fast-paced with danceable rhythms: was sometimes used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness.
- Yurts
- A tent of Central Asia's nomads.
- Anti-Semitism
- Discrimination against Jewish people.
- Sweatshop
- A workplace where people work long hours for low pay under poor conditions to enrich manufacturers.
- Nelson Mandela
- One of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the 1st all-race election in South Africa.
- Gandhi
- Indian political leader who served as prime minister (1966-1977 and 1980-1984). She was assassinated by Sikh extremists.
- Dalai Lama
- The traditional governmental ruler and highest priest of the dominant sect of Buddhism in Tibet and Mongolia, understood by Tibetans to be the living incarnation of the bodhisattva of compassion.
- Mao Zedong
- Chinese communist leader
- Kashmir
- an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
- Tibet
- an Asian country under the control of China; located in the Himalayas
- Chechnya
- an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic.