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Natural selection
________ favours the transmission of characteristics that allows humans to adapt to their environment such as climate.
New Orleans
Early ghettos were neighborhoods in Rome where the Jews lived, or ________ before the civil war where many black people lived.
Xenophobia
________ is the fear of foreigners on the part of the host society.
ethnic group
When a(n) ________ can not be distinguished from society, this is called assimilation.
Territorial isolation
________ strengthens ethnic separatism as they retain their identification.
ethnic makeup
Immigration in the later 20th century affected the broad regional ________ of the states.
residential dissimilarity index
The ________ indicates the separation of the population in urban neighborhoods.
preservation
Minorities group themselves because it provides defense, support, ________ and group assertion.
French Canadians
They are ________ with distinct ethnic character, language, legal principles, religion, arts, and cuisine.
Indigenous community
The ________ were never a single ethnic or cultural group.
Amalgamation theory
________ is the formal term for the traditional "melting pot "concept of the merging of many immigrant ethnic heritages into a composite American mainstream.
Québec City
________ is the cultural heart of French Canada.
Genetic drifts
________ are when a group is isolated from its members for too long they begin to develop other traits.
NYC
Each Weekend in May, ________ celebrates its ethnic diversity by closing a street and a million or so people come to try foods from different cultures and dance to other music.
Indigenous ethnic groups
________ have developed over time in specific locations and, through ties of kinship, language, culture, religion, and shared history, have established themselves in their own and others eyes as distinctive peoples with defined homeland areas.
Ethnic companies
________ are not permanent; they become mixed over generations and lose their identity within 3- 4 generations.
process of acculturation
The ________** is the adoption of attitudes, behavior, speech and other things that the immigrants pick up.
Hispanic Americans
________ are a diverse group of those with a Spanish origin.
Race
________ has nothing to do with human characteristics and it can not be connected with nationality or ethnicity.
African Americans
________ were confined to rural areas of the South and South- East before the civil war.
Spatial assimilation
________** is measured by the degree of residential segregation that sets off the minority group from the larger general community.
Racial categorization
________** is an outdated way of understanding human variation.
Immigrant groups
________ measure the social distance between the minority and the charter group.
charter group
The English became the ________ when they arrived and established cultural norms and standards against the other immigrant groups.
ethnic groups
Segregation** is when ________ us bit divided between the rest of the population.
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