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Geographers who study identities of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are also very interested in examining assumptionsin society that form structures of __________ that often put many people at a significant disadvantage.

Geographers are interested in identity because they have discovered a significant connection between ______________ and identity.

Speakers of English (or probably any other language) may occasionally ________________,but if they do so too often—they risk not being taken seriously.

One’s ethnicity is based on which of the following characteristics?

The term that best captures the loss of uniqueness of place to the point that one place looks like the next is: 

The United States:

We think of the border region between the United States and Mexico as being an Anglo-Hispanic meeting point, but one of the largest groups of _____________ in Mexico can be found just outside the city of Mexicali.

Racial categories based on skin color were historically used to justify:

When elements of culture spread to new places—and they are significantly modified, scholars refer to this process as:

Rural local cultures are often dependent on a single economic activity.  Customs, beliefs, and artifacts are often intimately bound up with the economic activities. For example, the customs of the Plains Indians in early nineteenth-century North America focused on