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| apartheid | was the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas |
| balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ehtnicities |
| balkanized | used to describe a small geographic are that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states |
| blockbusting | real estate agents convinced while homeowners living near a black are to sell their houses at low prices |
| centripetal force | which is attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| ethnic cleansing | is a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region |
| ethnicity | is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| multinational state | contain 2 ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| nationalism | which is loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
| nationality | is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
| racist | is a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| race | which is identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
| racism | which is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities |
| nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| self determination | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| sharecropper | works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent b turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
| triangular slave trade | an efficient triangular trading pattern |
