AP Human Geography Ethnicity

What are the three major Hispanic origins in the US?

• El Salvador

• Mexico

• Puerto Rico

• Cuba

What are the 3 major migration flows that have shaped the African-American distribution within the US?

• Slave Trade during 18th Century to American Colonies

• Great Migration; from US South to northern cities

• Immigration back to Africa

• immigration from city ghettos to other urban neighborhoods in the late 20th century

What is apartheid?

• Jim Crow era in Southern US

• Legal separation of people based on race in South Africa

• Post segregation US

How are race and ethnicity distinguished between Hispanics?

• Hispanic or Latino is considered a race

• Hispanic or Latino is not considered a race

• On the US census they can claim any race, but identify with Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

How does nationality tie a group of people?

• Through only tribal groups with cultural traditions

• nationality and ethnicity both defined through shared cultural values

What is self-determination?

• desire to be successful

• Concept that ethnicities have the right to sovereignty

• concept that city-states are the base of civilization

What was most of Western Europe made of around 1900?

• Nations

• states

• nation-states

What cultural trait has become a great source of national unity in India?

• Hinduism goes beyond ethnic groups and serves as a unifier

• Buddhism speaks beyond language barriers

• The 100's of languages spoken throughout the country

• Unification created by Gandhi's movement against the British

What happened when the colonies became independent states?

• People were allowed to create their own political boundaries.

• People were allowed to create only cultural boundaries

• Boundaries matched the colonial administrative lines imposed by the Americans.

• Boundaries matched the colonial administrative lines imposed by the European countries.

What is balkanization?

• Process in which states break down through ethnic conflicts

• Process that unites states based cultural lines

• Process in which states break down through political beliefs

• A model to keep countries together, despite ethnic differences