Ethnicity ReviewGeography of Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Ethnicity

Identity with a groups of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

A socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based on a perceived commonality.

Race Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.

A categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics.

Often associated with European colonialism that some biological differences (skin color) are more important than others.

Your definition?

Dividing people by race (rather than by culture) is seen by many as a simple way to divide people based on generalizations about skin color.

Which group is Asian?

Chinese

Arab

Indian

FilipinoKazak

Nationality Examples?

To identify with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.

Self determinationThe right of a group with a distinctive political-territorial identity to determine their own destiny.

Identify locations today that suffer from racial or ethnic strife.

Ethnicities can become Nationalities, but cannot become races.

Nationalities may be the biggest source of conflict in the world toady. Often times the struggle for a national identity leads to ethnic conflict.

The process by which a powerful group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create a more ethnically homogeneous region (leave, force you out, or kill you) is called?

Self determination: The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

This has led to the creation of the “nation-state” (a state whose territory corresponds with a particular ethnicity that is transformed into a nationality.

Rarely does a the territory of a state correspond precisely to the territory of an ethnicity. Most are multi-national states.

Examples of a nation state?

Racism is the belief that the primary determinant of human traits and capabilities are inherent in a particular and superior race.

Who are the racists?

An ethnic island are groups of people who came from rural areas and immigrated to rural areas and set up communities of people similar to themselves (what type of migration?)

A second type?

An ethnic enclave

Or an ethnic exclave

“Flight” of the 1990’s

Economic flight

Longevity gap

A few facts about women:

In poorer countries, women do over half the work by producing more than half the food, transporting water and firewood, building dwellings, and performing numerous other tasks.

The lack of good data on the conditions and roles of women is itself a reflection on the gender inequities in the world today.

The participation of women in government has expanded in the past 15 years, but only in northern Europe do women account for even 1/3 of the seats in parliament.

Female infanticide (foeticide)

The killing of female babies in poor countries.

Pre-natal testing and abortions have made this worse.

While dowries are illegal in most countries, they are still a part of life in rural areas of many developing countries.

Over 1,900 women died of “suspicious circumstances” in 2007. These are what are called “dowry deaths.”

The year women gained the right to vote.

Gray = data not available.