ETHNICITY & RACE
ETHNIC COMPETITION
STATES
SHAPE OF STATES
VOCABULARY
100
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race.
What is Racism?
100
The process in which a more dominant ethnicity forces other ethnicity/ethnicities out of an area to create a homogeneous region.
What is ethnic cleansing?
100
The largest multi-national state.
What is Russia?
100
Chile is this kind of state...
Elongated
100
Common currency is an example of this type of force.
What is a centripetal force?
200
The action of whites leaving an area because blacks begin to immigrate to the area.
What is white flight?
200
The process by which a state breaks down because of conflicts among ethnicities
What is balkanization
200
Japan is an example of of this...
What is a nation-state?
200
State that is split into multiple pieces
What is a fragmented state?
200
A global supranational organization established at the end of World War 2 to foster international security and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
300
The physical separation of different races into different geographic areas.
What is apartheid?
300
A former state in the Balkans with multiple ethnicities and therefore clashes among ethnicities
What is Yugoslavia?
300
When a state has supreme or independent political power, it has...
What is sovereignty?
300
A bounded territory that is a part of a particular state but is separated from it by the territory of a different state.
What is an exclave?
300
The idea that political destabilization in one country can lead to the collapse of political stability in neighboring countries, starting a chain reaction of collapse.
What is the domino theory?
400
Real estate practice of convincing white homeowners living in near a black area to sell their houses at low prices.
What is blockbusting?
400
A border in South Asia between two very different countries with different religions that has been controversial.
What is the Pakistan-India border?
400
A state governed constitutionally as a UNIT, without internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers.
What is a unitary state?
400
A state that has no direct outlet to an ocean
What is a landlocked state?
400
OPEC stands for this... In what region is the economic union?
What is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries? What is the Middle East?
500
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal loyalty to a particular country.
What is nationality?
500
Provide an example of a country in which ethnicities clash
What is Ethiopia and Eritrea,Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon and South Asia (Pakistan And India)
500
The modern concept of nation-state arose in this century.
What is the 18th century?
500
South Africa's shape with regards to Lesotho
What is perforated?
500
Confederacy of independent states of the former Soviet Union that have united because of their common economic and administrative needs?
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States?
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