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Ethnicities
#1 Likely ethnicity of an Indo-European language speaking Sunni Muslim who lives in either eastern Turkey, northern Iran, south of Armenia or south of Azerbaijan, in Syria or in Iran What is one of about 30,000,000 Kurds or Kurdish speakers?
#2 Ethnic cleansing by this group was documented by NATO planes flying high over what was called, from about 1920 – 1990, Yugoslavia Who are Serbs or Serbians?
#3 Name, religion, and language family of the two ethnic groups between whom tensions exist in Sri Lanka Who are Indo-European speaking Sinhalese Buddhists and Dravidian speaking Tamil Hindus?
#4 Dominant ethnicity of what is now the world’s largest multinational state What is Russian?
#5 Ethnicities that TOGETHER equal 1% of United States’ total population What are Native Americans and Alaska Natives?
Places
#1 State in southern Africa that didn’t elect a Black as president until the 1990’s What is South Africa?
#2 Somewhere that African Americans are clustered in the United States What is Southeast, urban areas, central cities, specific areas of central cities (ghettos), or more inner ring suburbs?
#3 Multinational state in northwestern Europe found on all of one large island and the northwest corner of a smaller one. Competition there is mostly limited to sports What is the United Kingdom or UK?
#4 Area disputed by Pakistan and India that is primarily Muslim What is Kashmir?
#5 Former Soviet Republic whose principal language is in the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family though a significant number of its citizens are ethnic Russians and Ukrainians What is Moldova?
People and Religions
#1 Prominent person who, according to James M. Rubinstein, illustrates the complexity of ethnic identify in the United States. Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
#2 One of the two names in a Supreme Court decision in the United States that is now considered racist. Who are Plessy and / or Ferguson?
#3 Lebanese civil war resulted when this religious group became the majority Who are Muslims?
#4 Three religious groups among which there are tensions in northern India What are Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs?
#5 Sounds like a name but is really the United States’ South’s late 1800’s through civil rights’ laws equivalent of Apartheid in South Africa What is “Jim Crow” as in “Jim Crow laws”?
Key Terms
#1 Belief in superiority of some groups and inferiority of others as a result of biological characteristics What is racism?
#2 The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves is known as the right of this What is self-determination?
#3 The BREAKDOWN of a state due to conflicts among nationalities. It is named after a peninsula. What is Balkanization?
#4 A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood What is blockbusting
#5 Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor and not an element of culture What is race?
More Key Terms and Changes
#1 Reason why Poles in western Poland and Germans in eastern Germany had to move AFTER World War II What is the borders of Germany and Poland were changed?
#2 Rivalries among THESE caused the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990’s What are nationalities or ethnic groups or Slovenians, Bosnians, Croatians, Serbs, Macedonians and Albanians?
#3 An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. In Yugoslavia under Tito the unifying force was the “dinar” which was their money What is centripetal force?
#4 The process when a group forcibly removes another group What is ethnic cleansing?
#5 Most important unit of African society prior to colonization What is tribe or tribal?
Final Question
Group of people who left Karachi in large numbers in the late 1940’s around the time India and Pakistan became independent from the British Who are Hindus?