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Chapter 7, Ethnicity (Where are ethnicities distributed. Key Issue 1…
Chapter 7, Ethnicity
Where are ethnicities distributed. Key Issue 1
Ethnicity - identiy with group sharing cultural traditions of homeland or hearth
Race - identity with group perceived to share physiological (biological) trait like skin color
Nationality - identity with group sharing legal attachment to a nation
Ethnicities in the U.S.
White American 56%
Hispanic American 17%
African American 12%
Asian American 5%
The U.S. census reflects complicated nature of racial and ethnic identity. Questions include both racial and ethnic terms. Examples "Black" and "Japanese"
Key Issue 3
Ethnicity does not always correspond to nationality
United States - shared nationality by many different ethnicites
Canada - question of Quebecois as nationality or ethnicity
United Kingdom - one British nationality or several
Ethnicity vs. Culture vs. Nationality
Ethnicity
The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
Culture
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively
Nationality
The status of belonging to a particular nation
Key Issue 2
Slavery - forced from Africa to South America, Caribbean, North America
1960s on - voluntary to North America from Asia and Latin America
When African Americans moved to Detroit White Americans moved out
Key Issue 4
Steps to ethnic cleansing
Round up all the people and put the men in camps or kill them
Force the rest of the people to leave the village
Move a large about of military personal or equipment into a village that has no srathigeic value
Destroy the village
Ethinic Cleasing
Africa is extremely ethnically diverse
Colonial boundaries - many ethnicities into single nationalities
Ethnic cleasing and genocide in
Sudan - Arab majority on peripheral regions
Rwanda and Burundi - Hutus on Tutsia
Democratic Republic of Congo - Spillover
Has experienced long running civil wars