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For my own good
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Geography
9th Grade
12/04/2013

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Apartheid
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a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
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Balkanized
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Descriptive of small geographic area that could not succesfully be organized into one or more stables states because it was inhabited
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Blankanization
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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicites
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Blockbusting
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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices
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Centripetal Force
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An atitiude that tends to unify people and enhance suppoet to a state
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethinically homogenous region
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Ethnicity
Definition
the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
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Multiethnic
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of, relating to, or constituting several ethnic groups.
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Multinational
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including or involving several countries or individuals of several nationalities
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Nation-state
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a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
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Nationalism
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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.
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Nationality
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the status of belonging to a particular nation
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Race
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Identify with a group of people descended from a common ancestor
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Racist
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having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
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Rascim
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the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, etc. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
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Self-Determination
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the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.
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Sharecropper
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a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
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Triangular slave trade
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Triangular trade, or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come
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