Exam 5: Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl

-According to the table, which Canadian city has the highest percentage of foreign-born people?

When acculturation occurs, the ethnic group disappears within the host culture.

Which factor does NOT play a role in a person's understanding of his or her race and ethnicity?

Which statement BEST summarizes the current approach of the U.S. Census Bureau to self-definitions of race?

Ethnic groups often live within a host culture.

In its fully developed form, an ethnic homeland does NOT have:

According to William Frey, ethnic populations tend to concentrate in a country's interior.

Which group of people is MOST likely to live in an old building contaminated with lead or asbestos?

An ethnic homeland tends to reinforce ethnicity.

The island of Gorée is BEST known for its relationship to:

The neighborhood of affluent Chinese immigrants living in the San Gabriel Valley south of Los Angeles would be termed:

Ethnic neighborhoods in the northern United States and Canada became common around:

-Which color is venerated by the Chinese?

Which statement about race and ethnicity is CORRECT?

In an area settled by chain migration, the earliest immigrants often rank highest in the social hierarchy.

Which ethnic group became the dominant ethnic group in Miami, Florida, in the 1960s?

The only way to join an ethnic group is to marry into it.

-Brightly colored murals are sometimes found in which ethnic U.S. neighborhoods?

People reside in an ethnic neighborhood by force, not by choice.

Typically, Mexican murals range from being religious statements to political messages.