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Survival and success in the United States for all minority groups has had more to do with group processes than with individual will or motivation.

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True

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Which of the following groups formed ethnic enclaves?

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Cuban and Chinese Americans

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Which of the following is not one of the defining characteristics of a minority group?

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Small group size

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Variations in human skin color:

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??? Are inversely related to the concentration of melanin: the greater the melanin, the lighter the skin

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By definition, a minority group is always a group:

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Singled out for differential and unequal treatment

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This text supports the idea that most assimilation in the United States is a linear, inevitable process.

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False

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Which of the following best fits Blauner's definition of an immigrant group?

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African Americans

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Since the 1960s, many minority spokespersons have questioned the wisdom of becoming assimilated in the United States because:

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they do not want to be a part of a society constructed by the systematic exploitation of minority groups (both a and b?)

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Which of the following are true?

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Assimilation has become much more popular among American minority groups since the 1960s

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Since the middle of the twentieth century, minority groups have demanded greater openness, fairness, equality, respect for their traditions, and justice.

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True ..

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Societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) called social classes. These classes differ from one another in the amount of resources they command.

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true

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Which of the six Americans introduced in Chapter 1 and revisited in Chapter 14 is a member of the urban underclass?

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??? School teacher

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The tensions and resentments we have studied in the United States are mirrored in the global system of societies.

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False

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The major limitation of racial taxonomies is that they cannot provide clear lines between racial groups.

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True

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Which group best fits the traditional model of assimilation?

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Protestant "old" immigrants from Northern and Western Europe

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Among Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans, the amount of assimilation may vary significantly, depending on newness of immigration, language skills, and to which generation they belong.

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?? true

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The author suggests that the question for the future might not be so much "unity or diversity?" as "what blend of pluralistic and assimilationist policies will serve us best into the twenty-first century?"

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true

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Institutional discrimination is often difficult to identify and measure because:

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The individuals who implement it may be non-prejudiced and unaware of what they are doing

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The United States is neither the most nor the least diverse country in the world.

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true

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When entire groups are treated unfairly and unequally in the institutions of the larger society, this is called:

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Institutional discrimination

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Evidence presented in this text supports the view that minority groups _______:

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all of the above

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African Americans are highly acculturated but not highly integrated into American society.

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? true

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Which of the following groups is the least integrated?

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Native Americans

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According to the author, survival and success in America for all minority groups has more to do with group processes than individual will or motivation.

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true?

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The distinction between prejudice and discrimination is that:

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Prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is a behavior

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The primary reasons for much contemporary immigration are _____________ and _____________.

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Economic, political.

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Arab American women tend to have a higher than average rate of employment.

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? false

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Many of the recent Filipino immigrants were actively recruited in which of the following areas to work in America today

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Nursing

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Residentially, Arab Americans and Middle Easterners tend to live:

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In urban areas

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Non-Hispanic immigrants from the Caribbean include:

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Haitians

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Immigration contributes to the wealth and affluence of more developed societies and particularly to the dominant groups and elite classes of those societies.

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? false

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According to your text, there seems to be a correlation between perception of immigrants as threats and _______________.

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pessimism about the economy

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All but which of the following are reasons for the negative reception of Haitians to the United States:

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Haitians are not hard workers and usually end up on governmental assistance

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Korean Americans have formed an enclave that is involved mainly in the small business of

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fruits and vegetables

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In general, American reception of immigrants has been ________ with efforts to _______ immigration.

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welcoming, increase

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Immigrants from Jamaica, Nigeria, and Ethiopia tend to be more educated and urbanized than the "average citizen" in their native countries.

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true

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Almost 50% of Arab Americans live in _______ states:

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5 states

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The more recent wave of immigrants is much more global than the first wave of immigrants to the United States.

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true???

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According to your book, immigrant women are overrepresented in which of the following occupational category?

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service jobs (or both?)

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Contemporary immigrants from Africa are a small group and can be categorized as "bipolar"-bringing both high and low levels of human capital.

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true

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Africans have comprised about ___ of all immigrants in the past few years.

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less than 1%? between 5-10?

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Americans have been particularly open to newcomers.

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? false

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Cuban Americans and Jewish Americans have been particularly likely to establish ethnic enclaves.

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? true

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Which of the following countries is the poorest?

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haiti

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Labor tends to flow from ___________ nations to _____________ nations.

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less developed, more developed

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Immigrants from the Middle East are similar and include many highly educated people.

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? false

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A huge majority of Arab Americans:

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b and c b?

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According to your text, immigrants entering the primary labor market tend to be:

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affluent, urbane, and educated.

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In 2006, only about 13% of immigrants were from Europe.

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false?

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Continuing industrial revolution is a powerful force in the current stream of immigration to the United States.

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true

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Contrary to popular opinion, Africans have comprised about 5% of all immigrants in the past few years.

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true

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Since 1990, the number of native Africans in the US has:

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increased slowly (or more than doubled)

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One study of Haitians found that certain factors combined to lead the Haitian second generation to a relatively low level of academic achievement. What are those factors?

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all of the above

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Immigrants experience four main modes of incorporation into American society: primary labor market, secondary labor market, enclave communities, and illegal entry.

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false

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Immigrants experience assimilation into U.S. society similarly depending on education and human capital regardless of race.

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false

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Unlike its policy towards Cubans, the U.S. has defined Haitian refugees as "economic refugees" ineligible for asylum. Moreover, the U.S. has campaigned to keep Haitians out of the U.S. According to your book, what reason best explains this difference in treatment?

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Haitians have low levels of human capital that create concerns that they won't be able to support themselves.

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Of the groups covered in this chapter, Arab Americans and Middle Eastern immigrants have been particularly likely to live in ethnic enclaves.

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true

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The American response to Haitian immigration differed from the response to Cuban immigration due to:

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a,b,c

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Only 25% of the population in Haiti is literate.

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? false

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The DREAM ACT was designed to grant amnesty to those who had fulfilled the American Dream by gainful employment for five years or more, even though they were illegally in the US.

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true

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Recent attempts to curtail illegal immigration include:

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all of the above

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As society becomes more diverse with new immigrants and deals with unresolved minority grievances, what are the issues that threaten stability?

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Split labor markets, racial and ethnic stratification, urban poverty, and institutional discrimination

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The creation of minority group status for Mexican Americans reflected the dynamics of:

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A society in the early stages of industrialization

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Minority group females are doubly oppressed.

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false

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The old racist feelings are now being expressed in other guises such as:

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symbolic

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Today, white ethnic groups are equal with (or above) national norms in terms of average income, education, unemployment, and other measures of economic success

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true

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The diversity within a minority group is minimal compared to the within diversity between groups.

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false

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The United States has become more tolerant and open, and minority group members can be found at the highest levels of success, affluence, and prestige. One of the most obvious changes is:

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The decline of traditional racism and prejudice

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An example of integration at the secondary level is intermarriage with members of the dominant group on a large-scale basis.

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false

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Native Americans are probably the least assimilated minority group due to their high rates of intermarriage.

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true

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Only _______________ groups seem to approximate the traditional model of assimilation.

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European American ethnic groups

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Pluralism is often couched in the language of multiculturalism, a term for a variety of programs and ideas that stress mutual respect for all groups and for the multiple heritages that shaped the United States.

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true

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Which of the following is not a fairly recent improvement in the lives of minorities today?

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The overt bigotry of the past has been replaced with blindness and indifference, unsympathetic to change.

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What are some of the reasons U.S. citizens are threatened by immigrants?

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Fear of danger to jobs, economy, and cultural integrity

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Since the 1960s, many minority spokespersons have questioned the wisdom of becoming assimilated in the United States because:

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they don't want to

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What decade saw a reassertion of ethnicity and loyalty to old identities?

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1960

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African Americans are highly acculturated but not highly integrated into American society.

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true

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