Cultural Geography 2
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- Laws (no longer in effect)in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
- Apartheid
- Process by whcih a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
- Balkanization
- 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
- Balkanized
- A process by which real estate agents convince white propety owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
- Blockbusting
- An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
- Centripetal force
- Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
- Ethnicity
- Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ehtnically homogeneous region.
- Ethnic cleansing
- State that contains more than one ethnicity.
- Multi-ethnic state
- State that contains two or more ehtnic groujps with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
- Multinational state
- Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.
- Nationalism
- Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
- Nationality
- A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
- Nation-state
- Identity with a group of people descended from a comon ancestor
- Race
- Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
- Racism
- A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
- Racist
- Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
- Self-determination
- A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repay loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
- Sharecropper
- A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, adn trade goods from Europ to Africa.
- Triangular Slave Trade