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.