1. Be able to distinguish between ethnicity and race and understand that ethnicity is not just a politically correct term for race.
2. Understand the difference between ascribed and achieved statuses.
3. Know the roles that migration, conquest, and colonialism have played in ethnically homogenizing most nation-states and creating nationalities and imagined communities.
4. Know the different ways in which a peaceful coexistence of ethnic diversity can be achieved. You should know how these differ and the important attributes of each.
5. Be able to identify the aftermaths of ethnocide, forced assimilation, and cultural colonialism.