Exam 10: Immigration and Acculturation

The term insularity is used to connote separation only.

Assimilation is generally a short-term process.

______ refers to the feelings of disorientation and anxiety that many people experience for a time while living in a foreign country.

Discuss the U.S.policies on immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 2010,approximately what percentage of the U.S.population was foreign born?

Identify predictors of an immigrant's success in acculturation.

An ______ is a noncitizen worker who lives in a country for an indeterminate length of time.

Host communication competence refers to the capacity to communicate with the host culture's communication symbols and meaning systems.

No immigrant,as long as livelihood needs are to be met in a new country,can escape ______.

Integration results from giving up one's original cultural identity.

The United States is host to more ______ than any other nation.

Discuss what could happen if immigration did not occur.

In 1921,the U.S.Congress established country ______ based on the origins of the U.S.population.

Separation is maintaining one's original culture and not participating in the new culture.

Brazil's immigration history includes migration from Europe and ______ as well as a small group from the U.S.Confederacy.

Of the following decades,which had the most immigration into the United States?

Compare the U.S.colonial policies on immigration.