February 5 and 6, 2014
AP Human Geography Agenda
Ethnicity
Ethnicity – At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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Know where ethnicities are distributed, both in the US and in major world regions
Discuss why and how ethnicities have been transformed into nationalities
Define the following: Nation-State, Nationalism, Multinational State, Multiethnic State, Balkanization
Understand why ethnicities clash
Define Ethnic cleansing and understand where and why this has happened
Big Framing Objective –
Ethnicity
Discuss the effect that race and
ethnicity have on different areas of
the world, specifically the US and
Africa.
By the end of today, we will
1. Discuss the ethnic breakdowns in the US and where ethnicities tend to group
2. Understand how ethnicities have transformed into nationalities
Part I: Do now – What do I remember? (5 minutes): Individual
What is the difference between De Jure and De Facto Segregation?
Mrs. Davies - Part II: Ethnicity – Key Issue #1 (40 minutes): Power Point, video
We need to take some notes on the effects of race and ethnicity, and look at the ethnic breakdowns in
the US
Part III: Key Issue #2 – How ethnicities become nationalities (30 minutes): Power Point
Really focus on the idea of Nationality, Nations, States . . .
Part IV: Ghosts of Rwanda (rest of class): Video
We will take a closer look at the 1994 genocide in Rwanda – see why it happened and how “ethnicity”
played a role.
Part V: Do Later – what did I learn (end of class): Individual
What are the 3 prominent ethnic groups in the US? Where are they generally located?
Or
What is the difference between Multistate Nation and a Multination State?
What needs to be turned in at the
end of this class?
 Do Now Do Later
 Key Issue 2 Homework
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UpComing Events:
2/7 and 2/10: Even more ethnicity
2/11 and 2/12: Ethnic Conflicts and Cleansing
2/13 and 2/14: Test on Religion and Ethnciity
What is due next class?
 Key Issue #3
IF YOU LEARN ONLY 3 THINGS IN THIS UNIT:
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There are 5 primary relgions in the world today: Christianity, Islam, Judaism (the 3 “western”
religions) and Hinduism and Buddhism (the 2 “eastern” religions). Christianity is the largest
religion in the world with just over 2 billion followers. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world.
Religions are defined as monotheistic or polytheistic, and ethnic (born into) or universalizing (may
convert into).
There are architectual differences in religious structures around the world. Christians use
churches, Jews use synagogues, Muslims use mosques, Hindus use temples, and Buddhist use
pagodas.
This Day in History
1804 Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on the
isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.
1899 The Spanish-American War ended when a peace treaty
between Spain and the United States was signed.
1933 The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the
date for the president's inauguration on Jan. 20, was adopted.
1935 The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first
time.
1952 Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of Great
Britain.
1971 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell
threw a "javelin" on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain
on the Moon today.
2012 The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th
anniversary of her accession to the throne.
INTERFAITH CONFLICTS
Place
China (Tibet)
Nigeria
Interfaith Boundary
Tibetan Buddhism and
Atheism
Islam and Christianity
India
Hinduism and Sikhism
India and
Pakistan
Former
Yugoslavia
Hinduism and Islam
Central African
Republic
Muslim and
Christianity
Burma/Myanmar
Buddhism and Islam
Christianity and Islam
INTRAFAITH CONFLICTS
Conflict
The atheist Chinese government id destroying Tibetan Buddhist
monasteries, and overall trying to suppress the religion.
Islam prevails in the northern region while Christianity and local
religions prevail in the South. Lead to power based tensions for
government control
Sikhs in the NW state of Punjab demand autonomy from the Hinducontrolled government of India
Pakistan was established as a Muslim state in 1948. Pakistan and
India are fighting over territory called Jammu and Kashmir
In the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s, Serb leader Slobadan
Milosevic tried to kill or evict the Muslim population in Bosnia and
the other Serbian controlled lands in the region
With its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained
violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s
borders, further destabilizing the whole region
Though Muslims nationwide have been targeted, members of one
particular ethnic group, the Rohingya, have borne the brunt of the
violence. Many Buddhists view the Rohingya Muslims, who live
along the border with Bangladesh, as illegal immigrants, even
though many have been in Myanmar for generations.
Place
Iraq
Intrafaith Boundary
Islam: Sunni and
Shiite
US
Christian:
Fundamentalism and
moderate Christianity
Christian: Protestant
and Catholic
Northern Ireland
Conflict
After the fall of the largely Sunni government controlled by
Saddam Hussein, both Sunnis and Shiites are warring for
control of the newly forming political landscape
Christians have conflicted in the US over political-cultural
issues such as homosexuality, evolution, and abortion. In
some cases, violent tactics have been used
British Colonialism deposited large numbers of Protestants
in traditionally Catholic Northern Ireland. Has caused violent
conflicts between the 2 groups in the regions