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Ethnicity

Ethnicity. State Nation Nation – State Nationalism Empire. Ethnicity: Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions (Rubenstein)

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Ethnicity

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  1. Ethnicity

  2. State • Nation • Nation – State • Nationalism • Empire

  3. Ethnicity: Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions (Rubenstein) • Ethnicity: affiliation with a group whose racial, cultural, religious, or linguistic characteristics or national origins distinguish it from a larger population within which it is found (Fellman)

  4. Ethnocentrism: a tendency to evaluate other culture’s against the standards of one’s own (Fellman 179)

  5. More Vocab • Centripetal • Centrifugal • Balkanization • Russification Yugoslavia Nationalities Soviet Union Nationalities

  6. For the next few slides: Find the similarities and differences by region

  7. Distribution of the B blood type allele among humans  • Using the B blood type for defining races, Australian Aborigines would be lumped together with most Native Americans.  Some Africans would be in the same race as Europeans while others would be categorized with Asians. http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  8. Lactose Intolerance

  9. B Blood Type Does Race Exist? Lactose Intolerance

  10. Read • Does Race Exist?

  11. List the Races • White • Black • Asian • Native American • Pacific Islander Pacific Islander

  12. White Black or African Am. Asian American Indian or Native Alaskan Asian Indian Chinese Filipino Japanese Korean Vietnamese Other Asian Native Hawaiian Guamanian or Chamorro Samoan Other Pacific Islander Other race Recognized Races by US Census

  13. Other terms • Hispanic – from a Spanish-speaking country • Latino – from a Latin American country

  14. Hispanic & Latinos can be of any race – for example, • Many in Argentina are white • Many in Mexico are Native American

  15. B Blood Type Does Race Exist? Lactose Intolerance

  16. Homework • Part A: On the following slides, answer the questions. Slides do not need to be printed. • Part B: Read assigned pages from textbook on ethnic conflicts. You will be the only person in the group which has read your assignment. Everyone will be relying on you! • South Africa – p. 228 • Ethiopia & Eritrea – p. 237 • Sudan – p. 237 • Somalia – p. 238 • Lebanon – p. 239 • South Asia – p. 240 • Sri Lanka – p. 240

  17. List 2 countries each from a different continentwhich are mostly homogenous. • List 2 countries each from a different continent which are mostly heterogeneous.

  18. List 2 countries which may experience ethnic tension. List one reason for your answer.

  19. Distribution of Ethnicities in US • Choose 2 ethnic groups and explain the distribution of each.

  20. 1.   There was no "decline to state" option allowed for "race" designation forthe year 2000 Census. 2. 97% of the people who reported that they were "some other race" saidthat they were also "Hispanic or Latino" in terms of ethnicity.  3. There are 57 possible combinations of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 races that wereallowed.  93% of  the people who reported more than one race,  reportedonly two.  The most common combination was "white" with some other"race.“ 4. 48% of Hispanics reported that they were "white" and 42% said theywere "some other race." 5.Based on the Human Geography definition of race, explain fact #4. http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  21. Af-am 6. List one reason for spatial distribution of African-Americans. • Reflects migration to north in early 20th century

  22. His-am 7. List one reason for spatial distribution of Hispanic-Americans. 8. What is the correlation of the distribution of Hispanic-Americans and the dominant religion in the area?

  23. Asia-am 8. List two observations about the distribution of Asian-Americans. 9. Explain why Hawaii is in the 50 and above category?

  24. Amerindian, Eskimo, & Aleut 10. Why are there so few American Indians in the eastern United States?

  25. Explain, using Human Geography vocabulary, the distribution of ethnicities. • Explain the large African-American presence. • Explain the reason for the spatial distribution of the Chinese.

  26. Forsyth County, NC/ NC White persons, percent, 2011 (a) 68.1%/72.1% Black persons, percent, 2011 (a) 27.1%/22.0% American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2011 (a) 0.8%/1.5% Asian persons, percent, 2011 (a) 2.0%/2.3% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander persons, percent, 2011 (a) 0.1%/0.1% Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2011 1.9%/1.9% Persons of Hispanic or Latino Origin, percent, 2011 (b) 12.2%/8.6% White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2011 58.6%/65.0% http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37/37067.html Total pop 354,952 14. Add up the percentage of ethnicities in Forsyth Co. Explain your answer.

  27. 15. Explain the difference in the racial make-up of Forsyth Co. and Winston-Salem.

  28. wsfcs Group wsfcs % West Forsyth % Am Indian .2 .2 Asian 2.3 4.0 Black/Afr Am 29.2 13.5 Hispanic 20.6 11.5 Multiracial 4.0 2.2 Natv Hawaiian .1 .2 White 44. 68. http://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/4/2011-12%20Demographics.pdf 16. Does West Forsyth reflect the racial diversity of Winston-Salem or Forsyth Co.? Defend your answer.

  29. Stop Homework Here

  30. Ethnic groups in US tend to cluster in cities (Rubenstein 222) • Why?? • Ravenstein’s Laws • Urban ethnic enclave

  31. Race in the United States • “separate but equal” doctrine – Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896 • Brown vs. BOE, Topeka KS, 1954 • “white flight” – 1950’s-1960’s • Blockbusting – Real Estate Agents encourage white neighbors to sell at a lost, then re-sell higher to African-Americans desperate to escape inner-city

  32. World Examples

  33. The largest ethnic group as the percentage of total population.* Dark yellow: 85% and above.* Yellow: 65-84%.* Light yellow: 64% and below;* Blue: Traditional ethnic definitions do not apply. Ethnicity is replaced by color of skin.(Source: WFB. Data as of 2000-2008).

  34. Belgium • Dutch-speaking Flemish • French-speaking Walloons • Both consider to be Belgian nationality

  35. United Kingdom • Multinational • England • Scotland • Wales • Northern Ireland • Scotland and Wales have separate elected governments • Each have own national soccer teams World Cup 2010 Teams

  36. China

  37. Sino-Tibetan Language Family (20%) Chinese languages based on 420 one syllable words with meaning infered from context and tone. • Branches: • Sinitic • Mandarin (1075), • Cantonese (71), • Austro-Thai (77) • Thai, • Hmong • Tibeto-Burman • Burmese (32)

  38. Sino-Tibetan Language Family (20%) Ethnicity Language

  39. Ethnic Conflicts

  40. European colonial empires in 1938 http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  41. Jigsaw • South Africa – p. 228 • Ethiopia & Eritrea – p. 237 • Sudan – p. 237 • Somalia – p. 238 • Lebanon – p. 239 • South Asia – p. 240 • Sri Lanka – p. 240

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