Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity and Geography
Vocab
Ethnic Provinces/China
Gender and Ethnicity
100
This group is tied together by the seizure of their land and genocide of their people.
Who are Native Americans?
100
Large concentrations of an ethnic group in an urban setting.
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
100
Giving up ones culture to adopt a new culture.
What is assimilation?
100
The majority group of Chinese culture.
What is Han?
100
Restrooms, clubs, and hospitals are examples of this.
What is a gendered space?
200
This group was brought to the United States and enslaved.
Who are African Americans?
200
A suburb with a high ethnic population.
What is an ethnoburb?
200
Learning how to operate within a new culture.
What is acculturation?
200
The geographic region of China that has a low population density.
What is Western China?
200
This region has the shortest life expectancy for women.
What is sub-saharan Africa?
300
This group of people are brought together by their language and are mostly found in the Southwest of the United States.
Who are Hispanics?
300
A rural or non-urban area that has a high percentage of an ethnic group.
What is an ethnic island?
300
The creation of an ethnic identity not commonly found in the past.
What is an emergent ethnicity?
300
This ethnic group inspires fear in the Chinese government.
Who are the Uighurs?
300
This region has the least representation of women in the work force.
What is Southwest Asia or the Middle East?
400
This group makes up 93% of the Chinese population.
Who are the Han?
400
Name one of the ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
What is Korea Town, Boyle Heights, Chinatown?
400
An ethnic group maintains a strong self-identity yet has adopted cultural traits to function in a society.
What is cultural assimilation?
400
This is the process of sending Chinese majority people to the Western part of China to out populate the ethnic minorities.
What is Hanification?
400
Nursing for females would be considered this.
What is a gendered job?
500
This group of people migrated from Laos after being persecuted by the Vietnamese.
Who are the Hmong?
500
This form of migration results in ethnic islands.
What is cluster migration?
500
A people hold to a few cultural traditions, but in all other aspects of their life they behave like the majority culture.
What is functional assimilation?
500
This region of Indonesia has a unique ethnic minority.
What is West Papua?
500
The difference in earnings between men and women is called this.
What is a wage gap?
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