Deck 8: Asian and Pacific Island Americans

Question 1

How has the "model minority" stereotype worked against Asians in the economic and political spheres?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are the consequences of the model minority stereotype for other ethnic populations in America?

Answer 2

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Question 3

How has the college/university admissions process affected the presence of Asian American students in colleges and universities?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How does the perception that "all" Asian persons are foreigners in the United States affect the visibility of Asian Americans?

Question 5

How has U.S. immigration policy toward Asians reflected anti-Asian sentiment?

Question 6

What was the purpose of Executive Order 9066?

Question 7

What is the economic impact of a "glass ceiling" for Asian Americans?

Question 8

How have Asian Americans been affected by exclusionary political tactics?

Question 9

The Filipinos were the first Asian minority to live in America in significant numbers.

Question 10

The Chinese initially worked on the railroads, only later going to the gold mines.

Question 11

The largest segment of the Asian American population consists of Chinese persons.

Question 12

The Japanese are the single largest Asian minority in the United States.

Question 13

Asians as a whole have been universally successful in the U.S.

Question 14

Despite the success of Asians, their household income still lags behind that for white families.

Question 15

Asians in better-paying managerial jobs tend to be at the lower levels of such jobs.

Question 16

Asians and whites now attain virtually the same levels of education.

Question 17

Asians are victims of discrimination in the college admissions process.

Question 18

Asians get less "return" in terms of income than whites for their educational attainment.

Question 19

As a general rule, the longer an Asian subpopulation has lived in the United States, the less segregated they are.

Question 20

There are large differences in the life spans of whites and Asians.

Question 21

Asians are more likely to die from accidents and homicide than whites.

Question 22

A recent report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights indicates that there are few remaining instances of anti-Asian sentiment in America.

Question 23

The view of Asians as the "yellow peril" was first proposed during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Question 24

Unlike African Americans, Asians are rarely victims of white violence.

Question 25

Unlike the Japanese, the Chinese have never had legislation enacted to prevent their entry into the United States.

Question 26

Japanese were, in the end, fully compensated for their losses from being forced into internment camps.

Question 27

The existence of a "glass ceiling" for Asians limits promotions but not, as the recent evidence shows, their average income.

Question 28

The economic success of Asians has not translated into political power.

Question 29

The model minority stereotype is used to limit Asian political activity.

Question 30

The success of Asians in colleges and universities indicates that they do not suffer discrimination at this level of the educational system.

Question 31

Despite some anti-Asian sentiment, Asians are rarely discouraged from moving into white neighborhoods.

Question 32

Compared to other minorities, Asian Americans have received relatively little help from the government in overcoming discrimination against them.

Question 33

The model minority stereotype for Asians is often used to indict other minorities for their lack of similar success.

Question 34

The Asian population is the least educated ethnic population in the United States.

Question 35

The model minority stereotype for Asian Americans has increased their political influence in the United States.

Question 36

Asian Americans are portrayed as the "model minority" in U.S. society because they have not mounted highly visible or violent protests against discrimination.

Question 37

Most U.S. immigration legislation regarding Asians was designed to exclude Asian immigrants from competing with white Europeans.

Question 38

The 1917 Immigration Act was enacted in order to stop Japanese immigration as well as immigration from other Asian countries to the United States.

Question 39

Since the Philippine Islands were a territory of the United States in the 1920s, they were exempt from the 1917 Immigration Act and the 1924 National Origins Act.

Question 40

In response to legal challenges in Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) and Korematsu v. United States (1944), the U.S. Supreme Court repealed Executive Order 9066.

Question 41

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress in order to suspend the civil rights of Asian Americans.

Question 42

Today, as in the early decades of this century, the white population perceives Asian Americans as a threat to white workers.

Question 43

Asian Americans are highly visible in local, state, and national political offices.

Question 44

The immigration from Asian and the Pacific Islands over the last decades has decreased the diversity of cultures.

Question 45

Filipino-origin Americans have the highest rate of poverty within the Asian subpopulations.

Question 46

Asian household income is the highest in the United States.

Question 47

Since 1980, the Asian American population has __________ as a percentage of the total U.S. population.

A) doubled in size
B) grown slightly
C) actually declined
D) tripled in size

Question 48

The first Asians began coming to America in the

A) 1820s.
B) 1850s.
C) 1890s.
D) early 1900s.

Question 49

Which provided additional compensation in recent years for the survivors of the Japanese relocation camps?

A) the Civil Rights Act of 1965
B) the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act
C) the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
D) Presidential Proclamation 4417

Question 50

Which laws were used to restrict Japanese immigration?

A) the Immigration Act of 1917
B) the National Origins Act of 1924
C) the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
D) both a and b

Question 51

Which factor least contributes to increases in Asian income?

A) higher levels of educational attainment
B) promotion to the highest levels of management
C) numbers of workers per family unit
D) length of time in the United States

Question 52

Which is the second largest Asian minority in America?

A) Koreans
B) Filipinos
C) Chinese
D) Japanese

Question 53

Which is the least segregated Asian minority?

A) Chinese
B) Filipino
C) Japanese
D) Korean

Question 54

Which ethnic subpopulation was exempt from the restrictions of the Immigration Act of 1917 and the National Origins Act of 1924?

A) Japanese
B) Chinese
C) Filipinos
D) Koreans

Question 55

Which is least related to present-day anti-Asian beliefs by whites?

A) the middleman minority positions of Asians
B) the trade situation with Japan
C) the economic competition with Asian nations
D) the conflict with Japan in World War II

Question 56

Which is not a current negative belief about Asians?

A) They are sneaky, obsequious, or inscrutable.
B) They are recent immigrants.
C) They are intelligent and successful.
D) They do not experience social or economic problems.

Question 57

The most segregated Asian subpopulation is the

A) Vietnamese.
B) Japanese.
C) Korean.
D) Filipino.

Question 58

Which is most true of Asian educational attainment compared to white attainment?

A) Close to the same percentage graduate from high school.
B) Asians get more income than equivalently educated whites.
C) The percentage of Asian college graduates is much higher than the percentage for whites.
D) The gap between educational attainment has closed dramatically.

Question 59

Which is not true of Asian educational attainment compared to white attainment?

A) Asians are considered the most educated ethnic subpopulation.
B) Asians have higher college graduation rates.
C) Asians have the same percentage of people who do not hold a high school degree.
D) The gap in college graduation rates has closed over the last decade.

Question 60

Which is not true of Asian American employment in executive, managerial, technical, sales, and administrative occupations?

A) A greater percentage of Asians holds these jobs compared to the percentage of whites.
B) A greater percentage of Asians, compared to the white percentage, holds these jobs at the highest level.
C) A greater percentage of Asians, compared to the white percentage, holds lower-paying service jobs.
D) All of the above are not true.

Question 61

Which term is relevant to understanding Asian gangs?

A) tongs
B) clans
C) home boys
D) both a and b

Question 62

A factor that accounts for Asian Americans' having a higher median income than whites is that

A) they are more intelligent.
B) there are more wage earners in their households.
C) Asian American families are smaller than white families.
D) none of the above.

Question 63

The Gentleman's Agreement of 1907 between Japan and the United States

A) ended the war between Japan and the United States.
B) resulted in Japan's not issuing passports to skilled and unskilled workers.
C) established an "open door" immigration policy for Japanese persons.
D) caused massive deportations of Japanese persons.

Question 64

Who were the first Asians to live in America in significant numbers?

A) Chinese
B) Japanese
C) Filipinos
D) Asian Indians

Question 65

The educational condition of the Asian American population suggests that

A) the population has not been the victim of discrimination and prejudice.
B) the population has received preferential admissions to major colleges and universities.
C) despite its successes, it continues to experience discrimination.
D) both a and b.

Question 66

Asian Americans perceive the "glass ceiling" as

A) a vehicle for increasing their social mobility.
B) the product of attitudes held by white persons.
C) a means of occupational inclusion.
D) an easily traversed barrier.

Question 67

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988

A) provided Asian Americans, regardless of citizenship status, full U.S. citizenship.
B) established an Asian American civil rights commission.
C) authorized a $20,000 compensation payment for living survivors of the relocation camps.
D) opened immigration of Asians to the United States.

Question 68

In 1980, Congress created a Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in order to

A) examine the effects of Executive Order 9066 on Japanese Americans.
B) examine the issue of uncompensated loss of income and property suffered by Japanese Americans during the internment period.
C) examine the cost of relocation camps to the U.S. government.
D) examine the current situation of those interned.

Question 69

The Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act was designed to

A) permit Japanese Americans to get all the property they lost in going to the relocation camps.
B) give Japanese Americans in relocation camps full restitution for their personal losses.
C) limit the property and monetary claims of Japanese Americans in relocation camps.
D) disavow any claims by Japanese Americans for compensation.

Question 70

Japanese Americans sent to relocation camps

A) were forced to sell property and businesses.
B) were allowed to retain ownership to their property and businesses.
C) had their property placed in receivership.
D) both b and c

Question 71

The relocation camp system established by Executive Order 9066 was

A) developed to protect Americans from anti-Asian sentiments.
B) used to train Japanese persons for service in the U.S. military.
C) regarded as vital to the "national security" of the United States.
D) all of the above.

Question 72

Executive Order 9066 established

A) a repatriation system for Japanese immigrants.
B) relocation camps for Japanese persons in the United States.
C) a war crimes commission for Japanese persons.
D) a system of compensation for Japanese interned in camps.

Question 73

The 1924 National Origins Act was passed by Congress in order to

A) give all immigrants full U.S. citizenship.
B) protect Asian immigrants from anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.
C) stop the flow of Japanese immigrants.
D) stop the flow of Filipinos.

Question 74

The phrase __________ was coined by the Hearst newspapers in 1917 to describe the dangers posed by Asians.

Question 75

The Asian ethnic interned was the _________.

Question 76

The first Asian ethnic to immigrate in significant numbers to the United States was the _________.

Question 77

When seeking to be mobile in managerial jobs, Asians confront the _________.

Question 78

In passing the __________ Act of 1988, Congress authorized a $20,000 compensation payment for living survivors of the relocation camps.

Question 79

Executive Order 9066 was rescinded by Presidential _________.

Question 80

The two legal cases that questioned the legal status of relocation camps were __________ (1943) and __________ (1944).