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Select the word from the list below that BEST applies to the scenarios that follow. Do not use a word more than once.

culture cultural-landscape nation State nation-state

cold war irredentism balkanization devolution acculturation

transculturation centripetal force centrifugal force coup d'etat

1. The Kurds [map].
2. United States, Mexico, Kenya, Russia, etc.
3. Japan [figure].
4. Nearly 80 percent of the people of India practice the Hindu religion.
5. There are over 1500 different languages spoken in India. [map]
6. Bosnia, once a part of Yugoslavia, fights and wins its independence. [map]
7. A military general overthrows the elected government of Sierra Leone in western Africa.
8. Learned behavior.
9. Scotland and Wales now have their own parliaments and are making more decisions for themselves with less influence from London.
10. Vojvodina is an area of Yugoslavia that borders Hungary and contains a large number of Hungarian speakers. The country of Hungary has threatened military intervention if the government of Yugoslavia mistreats them.
11. As European Americans settled the United States, their language and customs replaced those of the indigenous Amerindians.
12. During ther 1970s and 1980s the United States armed the UNITA rebels in the southwest Africa country of Angola, while the Soviet Union armed the marxist government of Angola.
13. Houses, roads, fields, plantations, cities.
14. The Spanish language spoken in Mexico is a mixture of Spanish and many Amerindian words.

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ANSWERS

1. nation
2. State
3. nation-state
4. centripital force
5. centrifugal force
6. balkanization
7. coup d'etat
8. culture
9. devolution
10. irredentism
11. acculturation
12. cold war
13. cultural landscape
14. transculturation

For further review see the lecture on cultural conflicts.
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