ANTH 1150 Chapter 13: Chapter 13.docx
10 Apr 2012
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Ethnic groups are groups that have been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintain distinctive cultural and linguistic traditions, and that have a sense of a separate, shared and age-old identity. Those ethnic groups with a strong literate tradition and a history of individualized competition for upward mobility are pre adapted for competing in the rapidly changing world of an urban industrial society. Ethnicity turns out to mean an especially aggressive and virulent form of ethnocentrism that sense that ones own ethnic group is superior to others in terms of ethnic politics. The origins of ethnocentrism are linked to the concept of descent, the principle whereby individuals and groups establish their identities and consider themselves distinctive. Ethnic terrorism is on the rise: with most conflicts taking place within ethnic groups within the boundaries of single countries: protestants and catholics in ireland, jews and palestinians in.
