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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE 7 EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -33 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Whites who arrived in South Africa from Holland

Answer:

Boers (Dutch word for farmer) or Afrikaans (name of Dutch dialect)

Question 2: Define racism

Answer:

belief that race is the primary determination of human traits, capabilities; racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Question 3: What are the two scales of ethnic clusters?

Answer:

Regional concentrations and neighborhood concentrations.

Question 4: What are the prominent ethnic groups in the US?

Answer:

Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans.

Question 5: What is it called when a more powerful ethnic group creates an ethnically homogenous region by forcing a less powerful group to leave?

Answer:

Ethnic cleansing

Question 6: What was blockbusting?

Answer:

Illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell their properties by telling them that a certain people of a certain race, national origin or religion are moving into the area

Question 7: Tutsi

Answer:

Central African ethnic group; minority in Rwanda; traditionally herders; elevated to authority by colonial Germany and Belgium

Question 8: Why is ethnicity important to geographers?

Answer:

Rubenstein considers ethnicity "immutable" - people can ignore it, but they cannot change it. It preserves local diversity.

Question 9: Race

Answer:

shared identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor; A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important

Question 10: How is nationalism a centripetal force?

Answer:

Nationalist attitudes unify people and build support for a state (pulling toward the nation).

Question 11: What is the difference between ethnicity and race?

Answer:

Race is biological (group of people who share biological ancestors) and ethnicity is cultural (group of people who share traditions). Racial traits are transmitted genetically.

Question 12: What are the 3 migration patterns that shape African Americans in the US?

Answer:

Forced migration from Africa to America in the 1800s, immigration from the South to the North in the early 20th century, and immigration from inner city ghettos to other urban ghettos later in the later 20th century.

Question 13: Hutu

Answer:

Central African ethnic group; majority in Rwanda; traditionally farmers; excluded from gov't by colonial powers

Question 14: What is a multinational state?

Answer:

A state that contains two or more self-determinist ethnic groups

Question 15: What is the triangular slave trade?

Answer:

• Ships went from Europe to Africa with cloth and trade goods for slaves.
• Traveled with slaves and gold to the Caribbean.
• Traded slaves for sugar and took the sugar back to Europe.

Question 16: What is it called when a state breaks down through ethnic conflicts?

Answer:

Balkanization Question 17: Part of Burgess' concentric model that explains a zone just outside the CDB that is constantly in transition (no development & investment)

Answer:

Invasion

Question 18: Homelands

Answer:

Under apartheid in S. Africa, the gov't created 10 areas where blacks would be citizens. Post-apartheid, the homelands were abolished

Question 19: Define ethnicity.

Answer:

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland.Question 20: Ethnic groups living in specific area - can be caused by choice or restrictive covenants

Answer:

Residential segregation Question 21: Based on the Spanish word barrio (neighborhood), term used to describe rapid growth of Hispanic population in an area

Answer:

Barrioization

Question 22: States with more than one ethnicity are ...

Answer:

multiethnic

Question 23: What is a share cropper?

Answer:

Someone who works fields rented from a landowner and pays rent with the crops from the fields.

Question 24: Kerner Commission

Answer:

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders reported that US cities were divided into separate and UNEQUAL societies (one black and one white)

Question 25: What is a nation-state?

Answer:

A political entity whose territory corresponds to an ethnic group that has become a nation

Question 26: Succession

Answer:

In Burgess' concentric zone model of urban growth, succession is the process of new people move in close to the CBD, pushing existing people and activities toward the outer rings of the city (ie, Chicago)