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

The one-drop rule of the United States of the early twentieth century was used to identify people as:

-Which European City has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?

A large majority of the population of the United Arab Emirates is foreign-born.

A group of immigrants from a small town in Russia first relocate to Germany, then to Spain, and eventually settle in New York City. What process is at work here?

The great ethnic diversity of the Caucasus has been maintained in large part by which element of the natural environment?

In Rwanda, the Hutu are the majority group.

Genocide is not defined by how many people are killed, but by the intention of eliminating an entire populations.

In the United States, the term _____ is used to describe a poor African American neighborhood, while the term _____ is used to describe a poor Latino neighborhood.

The South has a higher proportion of Black Americans than any time in the past 50 years. This is a result of:

In Brazil, the lighter your skin tone, the lower you are likely to be on the socioeconomic scale.

If a group possesses adaptive traits that will give its members the ability to survive and a competitive advantage when colonizing a new environment, this group has a strategy of:

-Which country is the source of immigrants for the U.S. city that has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?

More Syrians became refugees in the recent war than internally displaced persons.

-Which is an ethnic Greek color?

-Which country has more foreign-born people than any other?

An ethnic neighborhood is what type of community?

Spatially speaking, within the United States, people of Asian origin are more segregated than African American and Hispanic populations.

-According to this map, most refugees returned from which country?

Ethnic islands tend to be smaller than ethnic homelands.

-Which region of Syria has the most internally displaced people returning?