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| a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government in South Africa between 1948 and early 1994. Ex: classified inhabitants into racial groups ("black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian"), and residential areas were segregated |
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| a geopolitical term originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other. Ex: Conflict in the Balkans in the 20th century |
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| After Balkanization has taken place. Ex: the Balkans |
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| a business practice of U.S. real estate agents and building developers meant to encourage white property owners to sell their houses at a loss, by fraudulently implying that racial, ethnic, or religious minorities — blacks, Hispanics, Jews et al. — were moving into their previously racially segregated neighborhood, and so depress real estate property values. |
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| a force that makes a body follow a curved path; it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. Ex: Ethnicity Diffusion following curves. Ex: Islamic diffusion |
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a term that has come to be used broadly to describe all forms of ethnically-motivated violence, ranging from murder, rape, and torture to the forcible removal of populations.
Ex: The Hutus being driven out of Rwanda |
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| a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed. Ex: Middle Eastern |
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| A multiethnic society is one with members belonging to more than one ethnic group, in contrast to societies which are ethnically homogenous. Ex: the U.S. |
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| a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of gay and lesbian studies and feminist studies. Ex: Ian Foale |
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| a state (country) in which the population consists of two or more ethnically distinct nations (peoples) that are of significant size. Ex: the U.S. |
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| Nationalism generally involves the identification of an ethnic identity with a state.[1] The subject can include the belief that one's nation is of primary importance. Ex: the USSR |
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| Membership that can be acquired by being born within the jurisdiction of a state, by inheriting it from parents, or by a process of naturalization. Ex: SPARTANS |
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| a certain form of state that derives its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit. Ex: Nazi Germany |
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| refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. Ex: BENCHANG is Asian |
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| the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Ex: Segregation in 60's |
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| A person who practices Racism. Ex: White people in early 20th century |
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| the free choice of one’s own acts without external compulsion; and especially as the freedom of the people of a given territory to determine their own political status. Ex: I choose to eat chocolate. |
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| the deaths of young women who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture by husbands and in-laws in an effort to extort an increased dowry. Ex: marriages in India |
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| the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female entities, extending from one's biological sex to, in humans, one's social role or gender identity. Ex: I'm male. |
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| the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. Ex: My name is Billy Bob and I'm white. |
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| Using Identity to work against something. Ex: Racism |
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| Residential segregation refers to the physical separation of two groups based on residence and housing [1], or a form of segregation that "sorts population groups into various neighborhood contexts and shapes the living environment at the neighborhood level. Ex: Jews forced to live in Ghettos |
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| a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering, liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the partition of a country, altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government, or a combination thereof. Succession is the opposite. Ex: Invasion of France, Succesion of Serbia |
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| Awareness of the world around you. Ex: I am in America |
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| the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Ex: The are where I exist. |
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| When something has the attributes of or is classified by gender. Ex: Krishna Jana is male. |
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| the "dramatic" increase in Hispanic population in a given neighbourhood. Ex: Los Angeles |
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