front 1 ethnicity | back 1 a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who imagined to be distinct from those outside the group |
front 2 origin myth | back 2 a story told about the founding a history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity |
front 3 ethnic boundary marker | back 3 a practice or belief, such s food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not |
front 4 genocide | back 4 the systematic destruction of an ethnic or a religious group |
front 5 situational negotiation of idenitity | back 5 an individual's self-identification with a particular group that can shift accordingly to social location |
front 6 ethnic cleansing | back 6 efforts by representatives of one ethnic group remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area |
front 7 melting pot | back 7 a metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into the U.S. dominant culture |
front 8 assimilation | back 8 the process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the domination culture and cease to exist as separate groups |
front 9 multiculturalim | back 9 a pattern of the ethnic relations in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant natural culture and yet retain and ethnic culture |
front 10 state | back 10 a autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make law and use force to maintain order and defend its territory |
front 11 nation-state | back 11 a political entity, lactated within a geographic territory with enforced boarders, where the population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people |
front 12 nation | back 12 a term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangeable with nation state |
front 13 nationalism | back 13 the desire of an ethnic community to create and/or maintain a nation state |
front 14 imagined community | back 14 the invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members like will never meet |