human geography
By Maria Madruga
1. Where are Ethnicities Distributed?
1A. Identify and describe the major ethnicities in the United States.
-The major ethnicities in the United States are White American, Black or African American, Native American and Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander different ethnicites come for different reasons migration, oprotunity, and change.
1B. Describe the distribution of major US ethnicities among states and within urban areas.
The places where these ethnic groups are located are vary close to urban areas and they such as Hispanics are clustering in the Southwest, African Americans in the Southeast, and Asian Americans in the West.
Why did ethnicities have distinctive distributions?
2 A. Describe the patterns of forced and voluntary migration of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans.
- The way these migrants got here can reflect there heritage history. Many African Americans were forced into migration from Africa for slavery. Many Hispanics and Asian Americans were found migrateing in the late twentieth century for economic prospects and political freedom.
2B. Describe the patterns of migration of African Americans within the United States.
- African Americans migrated to the United States in ,large groups of tribes or family units, from the South in the early twentieth century.
2C. Explain the laws once used to segregate races in the United States and South Africa.
- Some of the law that gave guidelines of segregation of races in the United States were haveing sperate everthings : bathrooms, restrants, places to sit (public benches). If these rules were broken extreame punishment would be placed upon the criminal.
Why do conflicts arise among ethnicities?
3A. Explain the difference between ethnicity and nationality.
- Nationality is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country, and ethnicity is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
3B. Identify and describe the principle ethnicities in Lebanon and Sri Lanka
- Lebanon and Sri Lanka are examples of countries where ethnicities have not been able to live in peace there is a constantly trying to be protected.
3C. Describe how the Kurds, as well as ethnicities in South Asia, have been divided among more than one nationality.
- The Kurds have divided amoung more then one nationality besause it feels it is too large of an ethnicitie to have just one nationality.
3D. Identify and describe the principle ethnicities of Western Asia.
- In western Asia the principle of ethnicity are the lack of similarity between territory in whice ethnicities and nationalities vary close together.
Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?
4A. Describe the process of ethnic cleansing.
-The process of ethnic cleansing is the act of useing force to remove one ethnicity from a a specific place.
4B. Explain the concept of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
-The concept of ethnic clensing in the Balkans is the process in which an area falls apart due to conflicts among ethnicities
4C. Explain the principle episodes of genocide in northeastern Africa and central Africa.
- Genocide is the execution of a group of people in whice they try to eliminate another ethnicity from everything they have.