Ch.7 Vocabulary

3. / Group of people who share the culture traditions of a specific culture.
5. state / A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
6. / How a state handles its conflicts among its ethnicities.
10. / A group of people who share a biological ancestor
13. / A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
14. force / A force that divides people and countries.

1. cleansing / Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region.
2. / Belief that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
4. state / A state that contains two of more ethnic groups who govern themselves an agree to coexist peacefully by noticing each other as different nationalities.
6. / Real estate agents persuade white home owners to sell their house at a low price due to the fear that a person of color will move into the neighborhood.
7. / Laws in South Africa that separated four different races into different areas.
8. / Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it.
9. force / An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
11. / The status of belonging to a particular nation by orgin or birth.
12. / Belief that one racial group is superior to another.