| A | B |
|---|
| ethnicity | group with which you share a cultural background of a particular homeland or hearth |
| nationality | where you are a legal citizen |
| race | group of people who share a biological ancestory |
| ethnic neighborhoods | areas where people of similar/same ethnicity reside in a city |
| ghetto | area/neighborhood in a city which has been downgraded and has bad reputation |
| "separate but equal" | doctrine enacted by US Supreme Court which allowed for legal segregation of races |
| blockbusting | when realtors convince whites to sell at low price because they are near an ethnic neighborhood and then resell the home at a higher price to an member of the other ethnicity |
| Apartheid | physical segregation of races; doctrine of South Africa for many decades |
| nation-state | a state composed of entirely one ethnicity; very rare |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to your nation |
| centripetal force | force that unifies people |
| centrifugal force | force that separates people/nation/state |
| multinational state | contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to peacefully coexist |
| ethnic cleansing | process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Balkanization | process in which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| genocide | mass killing of a group of people |
