Apartheid. a legal system that was the physical speration of different races into different geographic areas. Balkanization. Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. Blockbusting.Click to see full answer. Just so, what does genocide mean in AP Human Geography?a form of nationalism in which the “nation” is defined in terms of ethnicity. Genocide. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. Ghettos. a portion of a city in which members of a minority group live; especially because of social, legal or economic pressure.Likewise, what is an example of Shatterbelt? Shatterbelt: a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals (e.g., Israel or Kashmir today; Eastern Europe during the Cold War,…). Also, what is Balkanization APHG? Balkanization. Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.What is the difference between Balkanization and ethnic cleansing?Application: Balkanization is the destruction of a state due to ethnic conflicts–obviously its pretty important. Example:The holocaust was an example of an (attempted) ethnic cleansing. Application: The whole idea of ethnic cleansing is atrocious because it is the attempt to wipe out an entire ethnicity.