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- More developed country (MDC)
- Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, a country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.
- Folk culture
- Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
- Multi-ethnic state
- State that contains more than one ethnicity.
- Balkanization
- Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
- Primary sector
- The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.
- Secondary sector
- The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
- Multinational state
- 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.
- Nation-state
- A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
- Development
- A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
- Habit
- A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.
- Taboo
- A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
- Tertiary sector
- The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
- Literacy rate
- The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.
- Popular culture
- Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
- Custom
- The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
- Less developed country (LDC)
- Also known as a developing country, a country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development.
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
- The value of the total number of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year).
- Nationalism
- Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.
- Nationality
- Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
- Ethnicity
- Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
- Productivity
- The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.
- Value added
- The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.
- Ethnic cleansing
- Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region.
- Balkanized
- 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.