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= Ethnic regions
= Cultural diffusion and ethnicity
= Ethnic ecology
= Ethnic cultural integration
= Ethnic landscapes
= Two distinct geographical types of ethnic
regions exist
Ethnic minorities who reside in ancient home
territories
= Lands where their ancestors lived back into
prehistoric times
= Became ethnic when their territory was
annexed into a larger independent state
= Examples ² Basques of Spain, aavajo Indians
of American Southwest
= Place and region provide a basic element in
their ethnic identity
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Cover large areas, often over-lapping state and
provincial borders
Have sizable populations
Residents seek or enjoy some measure of
political autonomy or self-rule
Populations usually exhibit a strong sense of
attachment to the region
Most homelands belong to indigenous ethnic
groups
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Possess special, venerated places that serve to
symbolize and celebrate the region ² shrines to
the special identity of the group
Combines the attributes of both formal and
functional culture regions
Regarded by some as incompletely developed
nation-states
Because of sex, age, and geographical segregation
tend to strengthen ethnicity
Long occupation helps people develop modes of
life, behavior, tastes, and relationships regarded
as the
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Geographers often find traces of an
ancient, vanished ethnicity in a region
= Italian province of Tuscany owes both its
name and some uniqueness to the Etruscan
people who ceased as an ethnic group 2,000
years ago
= Massive German presence in American
Heartland helped shape cultural character of
the Midwest, which can be said to have a
German ethnic substrate
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