Ethnic Geography
Distribution of U.S. Ethnicity + Vocab
Cultural Forces
100

Identity with group sharing cultural traditions of homeland or hearth

What is Ethnicity?

100

This ethnicity tends to be clustered in American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada)

What is Hispanic American?

100
Forces that unite a group of people

What is Centripetal Forces?

100

The policy of one ethnicity or religious group to remove the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from a certain area

What is Ethnic Cleansing?

200

Identity with a group perceived to share physiological traits like skin color

What is Race?

200

This Ethnicity is clustered in the American Southeast (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, South Carolina)

What is African Americans?

200
Forces that divide or tear people apart

What are Centrifugal Forces?

200

Breakup of a state along ethnic lines (Ex. Yugoslavia)

What is Balkanization?

300

Identity with group sharing legal attachment to a particular country 

What is Nationality?
300

This ethnicity is clustered in the west of America (Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington)

What is Asian American?

300

Love and devotion to one's country

What is Nationalism?

300

Many African countries have multiple different ethnicities due to the legacy of ________ colonization and imperialism  

What is European Colonization?

400

People of the same skin color have the same _____

What is Race?

400
A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding areas

What is Ethnic Enclaves?

400

Quebec mostly speaks _______ due to French influenced culture

What is French?

400

Distinct ethnic group spread across Southwest Asia (Middle East) and are currently fighting for a country of their own: Kurdistan

What are The Kurds?
500

Living America and being known as an American

What is Nationality?

500

Is the connection someone feels towards a specific place

What is Sense of Place?

500

Other parts of Canada (Not including Quebec) mostly speak _________ due to British influenced culture

What is English?

500
A fear of people of a particular ethnicity

What is Ethnophobia?