Chapter 6 Ethnic Geography: Threads of Diversity

Transnationalism

________ is when a country maintains strong ties with more than one country and often that is a result of the social and business connection with their homeland.

Segregation

________ is when ethnic groups us bit divided between the rest of the population.

Natural selection

________ favours the transmission of characteristics that allows humans to adapt to their environment such as climate.

Territorial isolation

________ strengthens ethnic separatism as they retain their identification.

Race

________ is an outdated categorization of humans based on outward physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, or eye colour or shape.

Ethnocentrism

________ is the tendency to evaluate other cultures from the standards of ones own.

Xenophobia

________ is the fear of foreigners on the part of the host society.

assimilation

When a(n) ethnic group can not be distinguished from society

later 20th century

Immigration in the ________ affected the broad regional ethnic makeup of the states.

residential dissimilarity index

The ________ indicates the separation of the population in urban neighborhoods.

Amalgamation theory

________ is the formal term for the traditional "melting pot "concept of the merging of many immigrant ethnic heritages into a composite American mainstream.

Indigenous community

The ________ were never a single ethnic or cultural group.

Québec City

________ is the cultural heart of French Canada.

NYC

Each Weekend in May, ________ celebrates its ethnic diversity by closing a street and a million or so people come to try foods from different cultures and dance to other music.

Genetic drifts

________ are when a group is isolated from its members for too long they begin to develop other traits.

cultural norms

The English became the charter group when they arrived and established ________ and standards against the other immigrant groups.

Hispanic Americans

________ are a diverse group of those with a Spanish origin.

process of acculturation

The ________ is the adoption of attitudes, behavior, speech and other things that the immigrants pick up.

Ethnic companies

________ are not permanent; they become mixed over generations and lose their identity within 3- 4 generations.

Immigrant groups

________ measure the social distance between the minority and the charter group.

Indigenous ethnic groups

________ have developed over time in specific locations and, through ties of kinship, language, culture, religion, and shared history, have established themselves in their own and others eyes as distinctive peoples with defined homeland areas.

Early ghettos

________ were neighborhoods in Rome where the Jews lived, or New Orleans before the civil war where many black people lived.

African Americans

________ were confined to rural areas of the South and South- East before the civil war.

Ethnic cleansing

________ is a polite word for genocide.

Minorities group

________ themselves because it provides defense, support, preservation and group assertion.

Spatial assimilation

________ is measured by the degree of residential segregation that sets off the minority group from the larger general community.

Racial categorization

________ is an outdated way of understanding human variation.

Race

________ has nothing to do with human characteristics and it can not be connected with nationality or ethnicity.