| A | B |
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| ethnicity | identity with a group of peole who share the cultural traditions of a homeland or hearth |
| race | identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
| sharecropper | someone who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent with crops |
| racism | belief that race is the primary determination of human traits and capactities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
| blockbusting | convincing white homeowners to sell their homes at low prices for fear that blacks will move in and lower home values |
| apartheid | legal separation of the races in South Africa |
| nationality | identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
| nation-state | state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity |
| self-determination | concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| naitonalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
| centripetal force | attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| centrifugal force | divides people within a country |
| multiethnic state | state with more than one ethnicity |
| multinational state | contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination |
| 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 | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
