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| Ethnicity | Identification with a group who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| Race | Identification with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. |
| Nationality | Identification with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. |
| Hispanic | People of Spanish speaking origin or having an historical connection to Spain, not including Portugal or Brazil. |
| Latino/latinx | People of Latin America origin or ancestry. |
| Chicano | A chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States. |
| Hmong | Largest Asian ethnic group in St. Paul, MN |
| Ethnic Cleansing | he process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region. |
| Xenophobia | The fear of foreigners or strangers |
| Pull | Factors that attract people to a new country; including: a new life, education, jobs, hope, land, freedom, $, etc. |
| Push | Factors that force people to leave their country; including: poverty, persecution, no land, revolution, etc. |
| Asylum | Protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed |
| Emigrant | A person who leaves to live permanently in a foreign country |
| Immigrant | A person who comes to live permanently from a foreign country |
| Migrant | a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions |
| 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 |
| multinational state | A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| Redlining | refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk. |
| Discrimination | the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability. |
| Race | categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. |
| Racism | the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another |
| Prejudice | preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. "prejudice against people from different backgrounds |
| Nation | A large body of people united by a common culture who inhabit a particular territory or country |
| State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government |
| Nation State | A state that is relatively homogenous where people share a common language and culture |
| Multinational State | A state with multiple ethnicities with a history of self-determination living together |
| Self-Determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| Stateless Nation | A nation of people without a state that it considers home |
| Multi-State Nation | An ethnic group that is dispersed across multiple states or nations |
