Exam 8: Asian Americans: Model Minorities

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

Asian Americans in general are highly urbanized.

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

Income per capita is lower than the national average for Asian Americans.

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

Explain how gender plays a role in the experiences of Asian Americans.

Like ______ Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans have used their traditional cultures and patterns of social life to create and build their own subcommunities, from which they have launched the next generation.

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

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

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

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

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

Model minority myths can ______ for Asian Americans who do not perform as well.

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

Characterize the contemporary situations of Asian Americans in terms of acculturation and integration. What caused the patterns you've identified? Apply the concepts of ethnic enclaves, the urban underclass, bipolar occupational structures, and the Blauner hypothesis.

Unlike the situation of African Americans in the 1600s and Mexican Americans in the 1800s, the dominant group had no desire to control the labor of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

The structural explanation for Asian American "success" argues that Chinese and Japanese Americans had the opportunity to build their economies, while colonized groups were still trapped in paternalistic systems.

In relocation camps, first-generation Japanese immigrants regained their power of family decision-making.

Explain how the "model minority" stereotype may be harmful for Asian Americans and other minority groups.

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