GCD: Chapter 5
With regard to immigrant ethnic groups in a host country, acculturation is more common than assimilation, especially in the short run. True False
True
An ethnic neighborhood is what type of community? ghetto, involuntary, voluntary, mixed
voluntary
The majority of the foreign-born population of the United States comes from Europ, Latin America, Australia, Africa.
Latin america
People who share a common ancestry and cultural tradition compose a(n) : race, tribunal, ethnic group, ethnoburb.
ethnic group
Race and ethnicity are synonyms. True False
False
The original inhabitants of the earliest ghettoes were Christians. True False
False
Which factor do most Jews use to define their ethnicity? country of birth, country of residence, religion, language
religion
After 20 years of living in the Philippines, a group of Han Chinese relocate back to China. This is an example of ethnic cleansing, involuntary migration, return migration, racism.
return migration
Immigrant groups never introduce their whole culture overseas; instead, they engage cultural ______. cultural ecology, preadaptation, simplification, ethnic isolation.
simplification
Ethnic substrates are more numerous than ethnic islands. True False
False
Which is an example of environmental racism on a global scale? Recent Hispanic immigrants live in old tenement buildings in a city, France sends its nuclear waste to Russia, Asian immigrants cluster in Californian cities, Italian immigrants find work in construction and masonry.
france sends its nuclear waste to russia
Which factor is particularly effective in encouraging assimilation? conversion to a new religion, maintenance of folkways, geographic isolation away from the host culture, intermarriage
intermarriage
Immigrant ethnic groups often make a concerted effort not to relocate to environments similar to those they left behind. True False
False
Membership in an ethnic group is largely voluntary. True False
False
When acculturation occurs, the ethnic group disappears within the host culture. True False
False
Which of the following is an example of racism? Irish-Americans show their pride by attending the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, The Aryans believed that they were a superior race and that all other races were inferior to them, Many people of Indian descent want their children to marry people of Indian descent, Italian immigrants cluster together in particular neighborhoods of Boston.
The Aryans believed that they were a superior race and that all other races were inferior to them.
Ethnic cultural landscapes are found only in cities. True False
True
Ethnic islands tend to be smaller than ethnic homelands. True False
True
In the chain migration process, the decision to migrate spreads by contagious and hierarchical diffusion. True False
True
One notable channelized movement is the return migration of African-Americans from northern and western cities to their Black Belt ethnic homeland in the South. True False
True
People reside in an ethnic neighborhood by choice, not by force. True False
True
The largest Asian populations in North America generally are found in cities along the West Coast. True False
True
There is far more variability within so-called "racial groups" than between them. True False
True
When an ethnic group changes enough to be able to function within the host society, what has occurred? assimilation, acculturation, acclimatization, assignation
acculturation
An ethnic substrate occurs as a result of language extinction, migration, assimilation, religious conversion.
assimilation
The "one-drop rule" of the United States of the early twentieth century was used to identify people as Asian, Native American, Black, Hispanic.
black
The color red is usually prominent in ethnic ________________ neighborhoods. Irish, Chinese, Muslim, French
chinese
Which statement is NOT true of an ethnic homeland? It is home to a sizable population, It tends to cover a large area, Its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively short period, Its residents typically enjoy some measure of political autonomy or self-rule.
its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively short period
According to geographer Alice Rechlin, ethnic islands develop because a minority group will tend to utilize space in such a way as to maximize contacts with the host culture, minimize the interaction distance between group members, assimilate into the host culture, erect physical barriers to entry into the community.
minimize the interaction distance between group members.
Cultural preadaptation is most likely when migrants continue speaking the same language they spoke in their homeland, move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind, change the crops they choose to domesticate, make use of genetic engineering to replicate successes in the homeland.
move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind.