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| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| 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 |
| Blockbusting | 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 |
| Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographyic areas |
| Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one to create an ethically homogenious region |
| Multi Ethnic state | State that contains more than one ethnicity |
| Multinational State | State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agrees to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| 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 |
| Nation State | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor |
| Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| Self Determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
| Triangular Slave Trade | A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa |
