Multicultural Perspectives
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cultural diffusion
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the spread of ideas, inventions and practices from one culture to another
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An example of cultural diffusion from the Iroquois to the whites was their
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democratic resolution of differences in decision making
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Bureau of Indian Affairs says that there is the following tribes still existing today:
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565
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Some consequences of the mass evacuation program were
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changes in Japanese family structure and husband-wife roles, more rapid assimilation, increased opportunities due to resettlement
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For most Chinese laborers, establishing a family was virtually impossible because of
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federal immigration laws
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Anti-Turkish sentiment in the U.S. prior to World War II was due primarily to
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Ottomans empire's political & religious repression of Armenians and Syrian/Lebanese Christians, massacred thousands of Armenians
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Franklin's account of the Indian response to the offer of scholarships for educating Indian youth at Williamsburg illustrates
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different values
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miscegenation means
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interracial marriage
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Syrian-Lebanese assimilation is nearly complete because they have entered what Milton Gordon calls the last stage, namely
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Civic assimilation occurs when there is an absence of values and power struggles
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The Bell Curve says the best explanation of wealth, status, poverty, and social pathologies is
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intelligence
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Myrdal called the intensification of discrimination resulting from Jim Crow laws
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cumulative causation
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In terms of income, which group has benefited most from all the civil rights actions?
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black middle class
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cumulative causation means
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a perpetual sequence of reciprocal stimuli and responses produces complex interactive results
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In the U.S., the culture clash regarding machismo is
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American women have more independence in the US than in most hispanic countries
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Mexican Americans may be described as
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diverse in values, socioeconomic status, and assimilation.
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The greatest number of South American immigrants come from
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mexico
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U.S. Catholics today are
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the largest single religious denomination in the U.S.
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What strained relations between the \"old\" Jewish population and the \"new\" Jewish arrivals?
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ethnic and nationalist prejudices, social class differences, religious differences
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Migration in 1847 to the Great Salt Lake Valley resulted from
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faced with extermination or forced assimilation, Brigham Young led Mormons westward
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By 1880, Jewish American communities were almost exclusively
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German
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Often accompanying Jewish economic success was
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social segregation.
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Symbols of Amish group identity include all of the following
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clothing, language, and knowledge of High German
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What contributes to low status and social isolation of southwestern Mexican Americans?
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negative stereotyping
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According to functional analysis
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existence of a dual economy denies job opportunities to Hispanics.
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Which term best describes most Hispanic Americans today?
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pluralism
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In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan spread northward and
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added Jews, Catholics, and foreigners to its list of targets.
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Settlement patterning of recent Arab immigrants tends to be
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in loose clusters along the edges of a city
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Turkish emigration to the U.S. was low because
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he U.S. was a Christian country, the traditional Turkish pattern of migration was of only large groups emigrating, Turkish law barred any emigrant from ever returning.
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the Chinatown community between 1850 and 1910 was
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order and violence
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The greatest number of Korean immigrants came
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after 1970
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Many Japanese settled in rural areas instead of urban regions because
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labor union hostility prevented their finding much work in the cities
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he General Allotment Act of 1887 attempted to
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end communal ownership of Indian lands and encourage private ownership.
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the person who convinced Spain to change its policy of enslaving Indians was
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Bartolome de las Casas.
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The basic building blocks of Indian tribal society were
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kin relationships
