This document defines key terms related to ethnicity and ethnic conflict, including: - Ethnic group, which is based on shared ancestry, culture, and history. - Ethnic boundary markers and origin myths, which unite and distinguish ethnic groups. - Ethnogenesis, nationality, homeland, and subnationalities in relation to ethnic identity and geography. - Terms like assimilation, segregation, accommodation, and cleansing that describe relationships between ethnic groups.

1. Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
Key Terms

2. r- ethnic group
A named social group based on perception of
shared ancestry, cultural tradition, and
common history that culturally distinguish that
group from other groups.
r- hierarchical nesting
Occurs when an ethnic group is part of a larger
collection of ethnic groups, which together
constitute a higher level of ethnic identity.

3. r origin myth
Common or shared historical experience that
serves to unite and distinguish an ethnic group
from other groups and give it a distinct social
identity.
r ethnic boundary markers
A way of determining or expressing
membership in an ethnic group.

4. r- ethnogenesis
The emergence of a new ethnic group.
r- nationality
Ethnic group with a geographical region over
which they have exclusive rights.

5. r- homeland
The geographical area, defined by history, that
in their beliefs collectively and exclusively
belongs to the members of that nationality.
r- subnationalities
A group that sees itself as a dependent and
politically subordinate subset of a nationality.

6. r- transnationals
Members of an ethnic community located
outside their country of origin and homeland.
r civilization
A grouping of a number of different nationalities
on the basis of a shared cultural historical
heritage that collectively distinguishes them
form other like groups.

7. r- artificial countries
Multinationality countries created by external
powers; usually applied to former colonies.
r ethnic homogenization
The process by which one ethnic group
attempts to eliminate rival ethnic groups within
a particular region or country.

8. r- ethnic cleansing
Deliberate and systematic attempt by the
dominant ethnic group to eliminate a rival
ethnic group or groups within a geographical
regi•
on.
r- genocide
The deliberate and systematic attempt to
physically destroy the unwanted ethnic
population.

9. r- relocation
The forced resettlement of an unwanted ethnic
group in a new geographical location.
r assimilation
The social absorption of one ethnic group by
another, dominant one.

10. r- forced assimilation
The government of the dominant ethnic group
adopts policies designed to deliberately
destroy or change the ethnic identity of the less
powerful ethnic group.
r- passive assimilation
When more dominant ethnic groups absorb
members of less powerful group without formal
planning or political coercion.

11. r- segregation
The dominant ethnic group places legal
restrictions on the actions of the members of
the dependent group.
r- accommodation
The creation of social and political systems that
provide for and support ethnic group
differences.