Exam 14: Race and Ethnicity

The Matsui family came to the United States from Japan thirty years ago. They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college. This family's story is closest to which of the following concepts?

In the United States, minorities typically have less:

Which category of Asian Americans has average income above the national average?

Discrimination is an unfair belief about an entire category of people.

You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you:

Which category of Asian Americans has average income above the national average?

Prejudice and discrimination can be either positive or negative.

A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is:

What is racism? Provide examples of racism in history.

Read the following statements. Which one is correct?

What is a stereotype?

The ancestors of which of the following first settled the lands of the Western Hemisphere?

Of all categories of Asian Americans, Korean Americans have the highest average income.

Some "white" people actually have darker skin than some "black" people.

The concept of "race" refers to:

Which of the following concepts refers to a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged?

A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in the United States, where they gradually lose cultural traditions. Doing so, these people have modified their:

From which world regions do most of today's immigrants come?

Today's immigrants to the United States are more likely to come from Latin America than from Europe.

WASPs have been the dominant category of the U.S. population through most of this nation's history.