Deck 11: Immigrants and Immigration

Question 1

According to the text, in deciding whether an accommodation would pose an undue hardship, three factors must be taken into consideration. Which of the following is NOT a factor in deciding undue hardship for an institution?

A) inconvenience
B) health
C) safety
D) costs

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What do we call a commitment to challenge and change patterns of inequality within the school system through direct action?

A) Multicultural education
B) Empowerment education
C) Community based education
D) Anti-racist education

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to the text, minorities tend to be framed by the media in four ways. Which of the following is NOT regarded as a recurrent framework in depicting minorities?

A) Visibility
B) Problem people
C) Stereotype
D) Whitewashing

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Different models (or levels) of inclusivity can be discerned. Which of the following is NOT included in this list?

A) Ethnicity
B) Equity
C) Equality
D) Autonomy

Question 5

If the focus of multicultural education is on culture, what is the focus of anti-racist education?

A) community
B) structure
C) reasonable accommodation
D) prejudicial attitudes

Question 6

Whereas multicultural education tends to focus on culture, an anti racist education focuses on?

A) Compensation
B) Structure
C) Process
D) Attitudes

Question 7

Which level of multicultural education is largely about changing attitudes by exposing children to diverse cultures?

A) Embracive
B) Enrichment
C) Enlightenment
D) Empowerment

Question 8

According to the text, a commitment to inclusion may involve treating everyone equally regardless of their differences as well as treating people as precisely because of their differences.

A) Individuals
B) Citizens
C) Ethnic
D) Equals

Question 9

What term may describe those initiatives for improving the institutional access, representation,and equity for racialized minorities at the level of workplace and service delivery?

A) Institutional Multiculturalism
B) Institutional inclusiveness
C) Institutional equality
D) Employment equality

Question 10

Mainstream media are deemed to be discourses in defense of because they are loaded with ideas and ideals that reflect, reinforce, and advance the interests of the ruling classes.

A) society
B) institutions
C) freedom
D) ideology

Question 11

What type of multicultural education is invoked when Aboriginal peoples attempt to secure control over the education of Aboriginal children?

A) Anti-racist
B) Enrichment
C) Enlightenment
D) Empowerment

Question 12

An embracive model of multicultural education is focused on .

A) Changing the system
B) Changing student attitudes
C) Embracing positive change to the curriculum
D) Changing the culture of the classroom

Question 13

When a recent Gallup poll of 10 000 respondents in predominantly Muslim countries were asked what the West could do to improve relations with the Muslim world, what was the single largest response:

A) Improve immigration programs to facilitate the flow of Muslims in Western countries
B) Stop the violence in Afghanistan and Iraq
C) Improve media coverage of Muslims
D) Improve institutional accommodation of Muslims

Question 14

Multicultural education is associated with at least four different approaches (or models). Which of the following is NOT regarded as an approach to multicultural education?

A) Endorsement
B) Enrichment
C) Enlightenment
D) Empowerment

Question 15

Which model of institutional inclusiveness is based on the principle of accommodating diversity within the existing institutional framework by making it more responsive to minorities and their needs?

A) Equity
B) Equality
C) Parallel institutions
D) Autonomous institutions

Question 16

In general, the philosophy underlying a commitment to multicultural education is

A) Community resistance
B) Personal transformation
C) Institutional inclusivity
D) Reasonable accommodation

Question 17

An inclusive institution is characterized by five major attributes. Which of the following is NOT regarded as an attribute of an inclusive institution?

A) Workforce representation
B) Workplace climate
C) Community relations
D) Product excellence

Question 18

Which model of institutional inclusiveness seeks to modify existing arrangements by creating a level playing field through removal of discriminatory barriers?

A) Equity
B) Equality
C) Parallel
D) Autonomy

Question 19

The textbook has argued that mainstream news media have fumbled the inclusivity challenge in two ways. One of these ways is the tendency to frame minorities as troublesome constituents. What is the second way of fumbling the challenge?

A) Whitewashing minorities
B) Rendering racialized minorities invisible
C) Adopting a 'shallows and rapids' treatment of racialized minorities
D) Failing to frame deep diversities in a positive way

Question 20

According to a 'soft' propaganda model of newscasting, negative coverage of minority women and men is not the result of biased coverage, but of coverage that is

A) Prejudicial
B) Systematically racist
C) Systemically biasing
D) Stereotyping

Question 21

What model of multicultural education is aimed primarily at minority students such as Aboriginal pupils?

Question 22

What expression describes the barrier that is associated with informal groupings within an organization that exercise control over members' behaviour and subvert the implementation of inclusiveness initiatives?

Question 23

The mainstream media continue to misrepresent minority women and men in print and on the screen. Which of the following is NOT given as a reason for the continuation of this misrepresentation?

A) fear
B) ignorance
C) market realities
D) lack of cultural awareness

Question 24

What is the model of multicultural education that is associated with changing the culture of the classroom?

Question 25

What term is associated with the fear of Islam?

Question 26

A education is aimed at challenging and changing the school system through direct action.

Question 27

What term best describes the commitment to modify institutions by improving institutional access, representation, and equity for minorities both within the workplace and through service delivery?

Question 28

What term best describes the fact that mainstream news media routinely and one-sidedly portray both Aboriginal peoples and racialized minorities as problem people who have problems and who create problems?

A) Soft propaganda
B) Political correctness
C) Institutional prejudice
D) Systematic bias

Question 29

What is the term that describes a process for modifying institutional design, organization, and outcomes by improving the workplace climate, a representative workforce, and responsive service delivery?

Question 30

In deciding whether an accommodation would impose undue hardship, the factors of health, safety, and must be taking into consideration.

A) limits
B) power
C) costs
D) benefits

Question 31

Historically, the mass media tended to portray minority women and men by normalizing invisibility while problematizing .

Question 32

Until the issue of is resolved, the mainstream media will continue to misrepresent Aboriginal peoples, racialized minorities, and immigrants and refugees.

A) money
B) attitudes
C) politics
D) power

Question 33

Several key barriers can derail the attainment of institutional inclusiveness. What do we call the barrier when institutions become ends in themselves over time that satisfy their own cultural needs rather than the needs of workers or clients?

Question 34

Two dimensions prevail in fostering reasonable accommodation within institutions - the reactive and the .

Question 35

Institutions are under pressure to reasonably accommodate. However, this accommodation must be within and not pose undue hardship on the institution.

Question 36

There are four main approaches to multicultural education: namely, enrichment, embracive, empowerment, and .

Question 37

Monocultural education is usually associated with the of students

A) separation
B) segregation
C) assimilation
D) diversification

Question 38

According to the text, negative coverage of minorities is not necessarily the result of biased coverage but of coverage that is biasing.

Question 39

It is not quite accurate to say that minorities are ignored by news media. Rather it is moreaccurate to describe the treatment as one of ' and rapids' insofar as minorities are ignored most of the time, but accorded intensive if brief treatment when a crisis occurs.