Deck 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism

Question 1

Unofficial estimates of drowned Boat people are:

A) 10,000
B) 15,700
C) 125,900
D) 200,000

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Cambodian tragedy,which led to the massacre of 1 million was perpetrated by:

A) General Lao Chan.
B) Pol Pot.
C) Ho Chi Minh.
D) Vietcong renegades.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

All of the following were provided in U.S.resettlement camps except:

A) college placement services.
B) war reparations.
C) english courses.
D) basic needs.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

All of the following countries eventually withdrew from the Vietnam War except:

A) Japan.
B) France.
C) the United States.
D) Britain.

Question 5

This country housed the refugee encampment of hundreds of thousands who fled war-torn ? Vietnam.

A) Taiwan
B) Japan
C) Thailand
D) Hong Kong

Question 6

Which state received the most Vietnamese refugees?

A) Texas
B) California
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia

Question 7

Based on Montero's five studies of Vietnamese ability to speak English once in the United ? States,we can conclude that ________ had a good command of it or rapidly acquired it.

A) 1/5 to 1/3
B) 1/20 to 1/15
C) 1/10 to 1/7
D) 1/2 to 3/4

Question 8

Many social,economic,political,and global factors worked together so that by the 20th century,the problem of what to do with the rising numbers of refugees became an ________ international question.

A) irrelevant
B) important
C) ignored
D) inconsequential

Question 9

Many Vietnamese have ________ to be closer to family and build family unity.

A) telephoned regularly
B) written in Vietnamese
C) gone on welfare
D) relocated

Question 10

All of the following describe the Arab world except:

A) Islam.
B) common dialects.
C) common language.
D) heterogeneous.

Question 11

All of the following contributed to the current U.S.policies for refugees except:

A) Displaced Persons Act.
B) Military Occupations Renewal Act.
C) Refugee Act.
D) Refugee Assistance Act.

Question 12

Europeans came into contact with the Arab civilization via commerce and resistance to:

A) Arab conquests.
B) Arab economic expansion.
C) Arab language domination.
D) Arab educational themes.

Question 13

According to your text,all of the following were admitted as refugees during the 1950s except:

A) Vietnamese.
B) Hungarians.
C) Cubans.
D) Rwandans.

Question 14

Vietnamese Americans score lower than average Americans on all of the following secondary ? structural assimilation measures except:

A) education.
B) jobs.
C) incomes.
D) residential segregation scores.

Question 15

Of the 2 million people who fled Indochina,approximately how many initially came to the ? United States?

A) 130,000
B) 200,000
C) 1 million
D) 2 million

Question 16

Under U.S.refugee policies,approximately 780,000 Cubans and ________ Indochinese have ? come to the United States.

A) 20 million
B) 5 million
C) 725,000
D) 272,456

Question 17

At least ________ Arabs now live in the Middle East and North Africa.

A) 27.4 million
B) 67.4 million
C) 106 million
D) 200 million

Question 18

Which world-level organization tried to help with the Indochinese refugee problem?

A) WHO
B) UNHCR
C) WBO
D) UNICEF

Question 19

The Vietnamese appear to be ________ a sequence of adaptation to the American setting that ? would produce results resembling those found among other Asian immigrant groups.

A) ignorant of
B) purposefully avoiding
C) following
D) distracted by

Question 20

Support or refute the authors' claim that civil rights are at odds with national security in the ? current state of affairs.Support your claim with evidence.

Question 21

As newer Arab American immigrants came to the United States,earlier ones:

A) considered them different.
B) united with them.
C) called them Christians.
D) did not unite with them into communities.

Question 22

In Dow v.United States,George Dow was ruled to be non-White.

Question 23

Very few Vietnamese came to the United States prior to 1971.

Question 24

President Gerald Ford assigned the management of the evacuation to IATF.

Question 25

The United States accepted the majority of the Boat people.

Question 26

All of the following are examples of Arab American assimilation measures which exceed levels ? for the average American except:

A) interracial marriage.
B) income.
C) education levels.
D) professional and managerial jobs.

Question 27

Early Syrian American immigrants were mainly Muslim.

Question 28

Two core issues that the United States must work to preserve in post-September 11,2001 ? recovery are national security and:

A) limited immigration.
B) increased immigration.
C) relaxing on civil rights for all.
D) protecting civil rights for all.

Question 29

Most early Arab American immigrants came from:

A) Mount Lebanon.
B) Israel.
C) Jordan.
D) Iraq.

Question 30

All of the following cities have the largest numbers of Arab Americans except:

A) Dallas.
B) Detroit.
C) Dearborn.
D) Los Angeles.

Question 31

Most of the early Arab American immigrants were single male sojourners who eventually:

A) went home to stay.
B) went home to return with brides and family.
C) lived decades as bachelors.
D) died single men in Syria.

Question 32

The Association for Syrian Unity formed in response to the harsh efforts of:

A) the KKK.
B) Jewish-Christian coalition.
C) C.J. Najour movement.
D) Mannie Staler movement.

Question 33

The Vietnamese have not focused on establishing primary relationships with Native ? Americans.

Question 34

All of the following describe earlier Arab American immigrants when compared to later Arab ? American immigrants except:

A) earlier were from one main region.
B) earlier were more educated.
C) earlier were predominantly Christians.
D) earlier favored small towns and villages.

Question 35

Caplan,Whitmore,and Choy (1989) found that none of the Boat people in their study knew ? English.

Question 36

At the end of WWI,the ________ Empire was defeated and the Middle East was subdivided.

A) Greek
B) Ottoman
C) African
D) Russian

Question 37

The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates ________ active U.S.hate groups.

A) 256
B) 376
C) 700
D) 1,200

Question 38

Islam has two branches,Sunni and Shi'a.

Question 39

All Syrian Americans in the early immigration period were from Syria.

Question 40

Laos had virtually no displaced persons because it took a neutral position during the war.

Question 41

U.S.Arab organizations condemned the 9/11 attacks.

Question 42

The main contemporary obstacle to Arab American identificational assimilation lies in the ? religious realm.

Question 43

Briefly discuss the refugee problem,including a history of dates and legislation the United ? States and U.N.passed to ameliorate the problem.

Question 44

Briefly explain what the authors might have meant when they claimed that Vietnamese
Americans "appear to be following a sequence of adaptation to the American setting that will produce results resembling those found among the other Asian American groups we have considered" .Provide examples in your explanation.

Question 45

Arab Americans are more likely to live in poverty than average Americans.

Question 46

In the early immigration years,most Arab Americans practiced their homeland culture at ? school,work,and other public places.

Question 47

Contrast the political,religious,economic,and global social forces behind the Vietnamese ? immigration and the early Arab American immigration to the United States.

Question 48

The third-period Arab immigrants have more in common with the second-period than the ? first-period Arab immigrants.

Question 49

Many Syrian Americans found their work in pack peddling.

Question 50

Contrast the settlement,choice of cities,preparation for work and fitting into the U.S.? mainstream culture experienced by the Vietnamese and Arab Americans.

Question 51

Most native-born Arab Americans have married out.

Question 52

Describe five world,Middle Eastern,or religious factors that have affected the U.S.political ? efforts of Arab American Immigrants.

Question 53

Briefly describe the factors pertinent to the first,second,and third-period Arab immigrants.? How do they compare and contrast?

Question 54

Describe the prejudice and discrimination reported in Chapter 13 relating to Arab Americans ? and Vietnamese Americans.Which is more intense and what factors contributed to that ? intensity?

Question 55

Ibish (2003) reported that about nine weeks after 9/11 the rates of violence against Arab ? Americans increased.

Question 56

After September 11,2001,the Reverend Richard Cizik called for patient love and caring for our ? Arab neighbors.

Question 57

There are at least 1 million Arab Americans in the United States.

Question 58

Make the argument that it was the locals who paid the price for Western involvement in ? Indochinese politics,using evidences provided in Chapter 13.

Question 59

The FBI established an advisory committee to improve relations between officers and the Arab ? American community.

Question 60

The most common type of U.S.hate group organization is the neo-Nazis.

Question 61

Make the argument that racism has experienced a resurgence in the United States.Argue that ? it is very similar or different to historical racism and why.