Chapter 8 Quiz

The Chinese Americans of today find no barriers on their way to the highest, most lucrative positions due to their high level of education.

False

The most recent immigrants to arrive in large numbers to the United States are Japanese and are seeking a less depressed economy.

False

An important component of the Japanese ethnic enclave in the 1920s and 1930s was ______.

Farming

Vietnam is a former colony of which European nation?

France

In 1907, the "gentlemen's agreement" was signed between the United States and ______, limiting the number of laborers allowed to emigrate.

Japan

By 1910, which of the following Asian groups outnumbered the Chinese in the United States?

Japanese

By 1960, ______ had an occupational profile very similar to that of Whites, except for the fact that they were overrepresented among professionals.

Japanese Americans

The most acculturated Asian American group is ______.

Japanese Americans

______ are most likely to participate in interracial marriage.

Japanese Americans

Which groups were sent to relocation camps during WWII?

Japanese Americans living in the western United States

Which of the following statements about Chinese and Japanese immigrants is true?

Many of the occupational advances made by Chinese and Japanese Americans have been due to the high levels of education achieved by second-generation Asian Americans.

An immigrant from Vietnam or Laos would likely be migrating to the United States ______.

as a political prisoner

Immigrants from India are ______.

at the "immigrant" end of Blauner's continuum

The socioeconomic profile of immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos is ______.

more consistent with America's colonized minority groups

Research shows that native-born Asian Americans were ______ likely to marry outside their groups than foreign-born Asian Americans.

much more

The Burakumin were created centuries ago, when Japanese society was organized into a caste system based on ______.

occupation

Which theory can be used to best explain the success of contemporary immigrants from India?

the Blauner hypothesis

Asian Americans, unlike other racial minority groups, have a ______ distribution within income categories.

bipolar

The sending nations of contemporary Asian immigrants are considerably less ______ than the United States.

developed

The notion that Asian Americans are a model minority ______.

has negative consequences

Explanations that attribute Asian Americans' success to their having better values and working harder than colonized groups are informed by ______.

human capital theory

Which group established an ethnic enclave similar to that of Cubans?

Chinese

The internal "city government" of various Chinatowns was called the ______.

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association

______ data is important for getting a better understanding of the variations in structural integration within the larger Asian American group.

Disaggregating

According to the chapter text, all six major Asian groups have a higher percentage of high school graduates than non-Hispanic Whites.

False

Chinese immigrants began to arrive to the United States in the early 1900s.

False

Confucianism, which was the dominant ethical and moral system in traditional Japan, had a powerful influence on many other Asian cultures.

False

It is helpful to consider Asian Americans as one group because they are similar in culture and language.

False

It was not until 1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detention (i.e., of Japanese Americans) was unconstitutional.

False

Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Asian Indian Americans have poverty levels comparable to those of colonized racial minority groups.

False

Which of the following statements is true of Asian American cultures?

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Which of the following statements is true?

Asian Americans are moving away from their traditional neighborhoods and enclaves.

Which of the following statements regarding the educational achievements of Asian Americans is true?

Asian Americans compare favorably with the society-wide standards for educational achievement and are above those standards on many measures.

Ozawa v. U.S. was a 1922 Supreme Court decision that declared that ______.

Asians were ineligible for U.S. citizenship

According to the chapter text, in 1910, between 30% and 40% of all Japanese immigrants living in ______ were engaged in agriculture.

California

Asian Americans in general are highly urbanized.

True

Asian Americans, like Hispanic Americans, are moving away from their "traditional" places of residence into new regions.

True

Immigrants from India are at the "immigrant" end of Blauner's continuum.

True

In the early 20th century, Chinese men outnumbered women by a ratio of 25 to 1 due to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

True

Some Japanese men left relocation camps by volunteering for military service and served in two of the most decorated units in American military history, while their families remained trapped behind barbed wire.

True

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, one of the nation's first restrictive immigration laws, banned virtually all immigration from China for many years.

True

Asian cultures, unlike Western cultures, tend not to stress ______.

excessive individualism

Secret societies called ______ contested the control and leadership of the merchant-led huiguan as well as clan associations present in Chinatown.

tongs

The Chinese who immigrated to the United States in the 19th century were mostly ______.

younger men