Ethnicity, Race, Nationality, Balkanization

Ethnicity, Race, Nationality, & Balkanization

Topics to Know

• Race vs. Ethnicity

• Nationalities

• Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

• Balkanization

Race vs. Ethnicity

Multiple Choice

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and other cultural traits.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Ghetto

Multiple Choice

A form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one racial group over other groups.

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Ethnicity

Multiple Choice

A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. It is created by people in society.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Prejudice

Multiple Choice

Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics

• cultural, physical

• physical, cultural

• achieved, ascribed

• citizenship, cultural

Nationalities

Multiple Choice

A nationality is

• a group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition.

• ethnic identity.

• any cohesive group of people.

• any group with shared religion, language, and origin of birth.

Multiple Choice

September 11th, was an example of a____ force which brought the United States together.

• Centrifugal

• Nationalistic

• Centripetal

• Ethnic

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?

• network television

• the flag

• the many ethnic groups living within it

• "The Star Spangled Banner"

Multiple Choice

Loyalty and devotion to a specific nationality is known as

• Self-determinism

• Nationalism

• Ethnocentrism

• Sovereighty

Multiple Choice

The celebration of a national holiday is an example of

• Centrifugal Force

• Centripetal Force

• Terrorism

• Revolution

Multiple Choice

When something helps bond the people within a country, it is called a:

• Nation-State

• Centripetal Force

• Centrifugal Force

• Stateless Nation

Balkanization

Examples of Balkanization

Soviet Union

• Devolution

• Balkanization

Examples of Balkanization

The Balkans

Devolution

​Definiton

When a country breaks apart due to internal struggles.

Can result from:

• ethnic struggles, ethnic separatism

• government struggles

• civil war

• poor economy, etc.

Open Ended

What is ethnic separatism?

Multiple Choice

This Middle-Eastern ethnic group does not have its own state and is dispersed among enough countries that it is a minority in each one.

• Irish

• Kurds

Multiple Choice

What is it called when a country breaks apart into several smaller countries?

• Centripetal Force

• Nation State

• Fragmented State

• Balkanization