| A | B |
| Penisulares | Spaniards born in Spain but moved to Latin America |
| Creoles | Spaniards born in Latin America |
| Mestizos | mixed European and Native American |
| Mulatoos | mixed European and African |
| ethnic-cleansing | mass killing of a group of people to purify a country's population |
| nationality | belief in common ethnic ancestry |
| separation | culturally distinct group resists being added to or tries to break away from a country |
| nationalism | idea of pride in one's country |
| culture | a shared way of life |
| state-building | culturally distinct groups form into a new nation by accepting a single culture |
| unification | merging of politically divided but culturally similar lands |