Exam 7: Ethnicity and Nationalism

In Zimbabwe, guerrilla fighters turned to spirit mediums to receive the blessing of ancient Shona kings and gain legitimacy and unity in their fight against British colonialism. This allowed them to promote what concept?

Sometimes a group of people breaks away from an ethnic group to form a new identity, and, in the past, two ethnic groups have combined to form a new and unique identity. These are examples of:

When an ethnic community combines with a desire to create and maintain an exclusive territory in a location where a common destiny can be lived out, this is called:

When a group of people share a common culture, sense of ancestry, and country, this political entity is called a:

Explain what is meant when we say that a nation is an imagined community, and give an example from the class.

During the colonial period, colonial powers redrew the political boundaries of much of the world to suit their economic needs and without regard to local ethnic, political, or religious realities. When colonialism ended, these new boundaries became new countries and most had groups claiming multiple ethnicities and identities within these new countries. This has resulted in:

An ethnic group's desire to assert its domination over a recognized territory and to affirm its values, ambitions, and common destiny is known as:

The United States has been described as a "melting pot" for immigrants, but not all immigrant groups follow the same trajectory. In a brief essay, compare and contrast the experiences of Italian, Jewish, Greek, or other European immigrants with those of immigrants from China or India.

The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group is known as:

In a brief essay, identify three ways that various immigrants from India have created a new and unique Indian American identity in the United States. Is this assimilation or multiculturalism, and why?

What term is used to describe a political entity located within a geographic boundary whose population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny?

The process though which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture but retain a distinct ethnic culture is referred to as:

Originally, this term referred to a distinct group of people with a shared place of origin, but it is now most commonly used to refer to a country.

Most ethnic groups establish traits that set them apart from others and identify members of their own group. These are known as:

Most groups of people have tales about where they came from and when, which unite them as a group. These tales are known as:

The process by which minorities adopt the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups is known as:

The French have a strong sense of connection to their history, ideals, and culture that binds them together, and this is clearly missing in Iraq. This illustrates the concept of:

In the opening discussion of the chapter, the author discusses how Jerome and Kevin-Prince Boateng have become soccer stars. Their father was Ghanian and their mothers were German; one played soccer for the German national team and the other played for the Ghanian national team. In a brief essay, explain how they can have different nationalities that allow them to play on different national teams, but do they have different ethnicities as well? Why?

Prior to 1800, the French were a scattered collection of urban and rural people who spoke different languages, celebrated different holidays and festivals, and practiced different religions. Then, in the early 1800s, the development of schools and a road system brought people closer together, and along with a growing economy and a national language united them as French, rather than Gascons, Burgundians, and Parisians. This illustrates the idea of:

In South Africa, the Bafokeng were able to eventually get much of their land back from the white settlers who had taken it through what means?