Deck 10: Immigration and Acculturation

Question 1

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

A) 5%
B) 8%
C) 10%
D) 13%

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The stages of culture shock in order are ______.

A) adaptation, adjustment, hostility, and euphoria
B) adaptation, hostility, adjustment, and euphoria
C) euphoria, disintegration, reintegration, gradual adjustment, and biculturalism
D) euphoria, adjustment, adaptation, and hostility

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Today's U.S.immigration policy is largely derived from that of what colony?

A) Massachusetts
B) Maryland
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Giving up one's original cultural identity and moving into full participation in a new culture is ______.

A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation

Question 5

Approximately 35-40% of the U.S.population can trace their heritage to a family member who passed through the immigration processing station at ______.

A) Angel Island
B) Ellis Island
C) Indianola
D) San Diego

Question 6

Which of the following states has half of the illegal immigrants in the United States?

A) Arizona
B) California
C) New York
D) Texas

Question 7

In what decade did countries from the Western Hemisphere become major contributors of immigrants to the United States?

A) 1910s
B) 1950s
C) 1970s
D) 2000s

Question 8

Of the country's total population of 65 million in 2011,how large was the Muslim population of France?

A) fewer than 1 million
B) about 2.5 million
C) 4.7 million
D) 6.9 million

Question 9

The number of people counted as living outside their country of birth in 2013 was approximately ______.

A) 240 million
B) 50 million
C) 120 million
D) 12 million

Question 10

In what decade did Asian countries become major contributors of immigrants to the United States?

A) 1920s
B) 1950s
C) 1970s
D) 1990s

Question 11

Maintaining important parts of one's original culture as well as becoming an integral part of a new culture is ______.

A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation

Question 12

In what decade was the percentage of foreign-born in the United States the greatest?

A) 1890s
B) 1950s
C) 1990s
D) 2010s

Question 13

Losing one's cultural identity and not having any psychological contact with the larger society is ______.

A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation

Question 14

An immigrant's learning and adopting the norms and values of a new host culture is called ______.

A) acculturation
B) biculturalism
C) culture shock
D) risk-taking

Question 15

Between the years 1450 and 1870,the largest number of slaves was brought to ______.

A) Brazil
B) British North America and the United States
C) British West Indies
D) the Spanish Empire

Question 16

Maintaining one's original culture and not participating in a new culture is ______.

A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation

Question 17

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

A) 1880s
B) 1930s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 18

An individual experiencing cultural shock has achieved ______ when they have developed the ability to cope comfortably in both the home and new cultures.

A) culturalism
B) biculturalism
C) multiculturalism
D) coculturalism

Question 19

Approximately how many immigrants entered the Western Hemisphere between 1846 and 1932?

A) 8.5 million
B) 10 million
C) 37 million
D) 53 million

Question 20

A person who lives in a country for a limited period of time,from as little as 6 months to as long as 5 years,with a specific and goal-oriented purpose such as education is a(n)______.

A) tourist
B) sojourner
C) expatriate
D) refugee

Question 21

The term insularity is used to connote separation only.

Question 22

By 1990,the Islamic population in the European Union was 40 million.

Question 23

An asylee is a person who is seeking refuge in another country for political reasons.

Question 24

Migration influences both origin and destination countries.

Question 25

United States immigrants ranked first in overall assimilation.

Question 26

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

Question 27

The first stage of culture shock is irritation and hostility.

Question 28

Culture shock is a three-stage process.

Question 29

Acculturation is maintaining important parts of one's original culture as well as becoming an integral part of the new culture.

Question 30

The Law of Return granted anyone with a Jewish mother the right to come to Israel as an oleh and become a citizen.

Question 31

A requirement for joining the EU,immigration policies are the same in every EU country.

Question 32

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

Question 33

Assimilation is generally a short-term process.

Question 34

Culture shock has only psychological symptoms and no physical symptoms.

Question 35

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

Question 36

Reverse culture shock occurs when the home culture is compared adversely to the admired aspects of the new culture.

Question 37

Descendants of Confederates who immigrated to Brazil successfully resisted assimilation.

Question 38

Marginalization is losing one's cultural identity and not having any psychological contact with the larger society.

Question 39

Psychological symptoms of culture shock include insomnia,criticism of the new country,and emotional withdrawal.

Question 40

Sojourners and expatriates live in a country for a specific purpose such as work.

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

Of the ways to acquire citizenship,______ states that if you are born within the borders of a country,you are automatically a citizen.

Question 44

Pennsylvania welcomed all ______ settlers on equal terms and as equal participants in the colony.

Question 45

______ refers to losing one's cultural identity and not having any psychological contact with the larger society.

Question 46

______ refers to an immigrant's learning and adopting the norms and values of the new host culture.

Question 47

In Israel,citizenship may be acquired by birth,residence,naturalization,or the Law of ______.

Question 48

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

Question 49

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

Question 50

Of the ways to acquire citizenship,jus sanguinis or by ______ states that if your parents are citizens of a country,you are a citizen of that country no matter where you were born.

Question 51

______ culture shock may occur upon a sojourner's return to the home country.

Question 52

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

Question 53

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

Question 54

The second wave of immigration was from 1904 to ______.

Question 55

Each major wave of immigrants to the United States experienced ______.

Question 56

Western Europe is challenged with increasing immigration,particularly from ______ countries.

Question 57

Unlike in Australia,Canada,and the United States,immigration to ______ is a recent phenomenon.

Question 58

The first stage of culture shock is sometimes called the "______ stage."

Question 59

The collapse of the ______ resulted in a major increase in immigration into Israel.

Question 60

With immigration,countries may perceive challenges to ______ cultural identity.

Question 61

Discuss the fast-growing group in the United States from 2000 to 2010.

Question 62

Identify predictors of an immigrant's success in acculturation.

Question 63

Discuss the ways in which immigration affects Israel politically and culturally.

Question 64

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

Question 65

Discuss the role of the Great Depression in U.S.immigration.

Question 66

Discuss what could happen if immigration did not occur.

Question 67

Discuss true integration and contrast integration and assimilation.

Question 68

What factors contributed to Germany changing its asylum law?

Question 69

Discuss Muslim immigration into Western Europe.

Question 70

Create a hypothetical situation describing an individual experiencing culture shock.

Question 71

Identify categories of acculturation.

Question 72

Compare the aspects of immigration of Japanese into Brazil and of Koreans into Brazil.

Question 73

Compare the U.S.colonial policies on immigration.

Question 74

Discuss the issues related to immigration to Brazil,followed by a discussion of the waves of immigration to Brazil.

Question 75

Name and discuss the types of people crossing cultural boundaries.

Question 76

Name and discuss the symptoms and the stages of culture shock as well as reverse culture shock.

Question 77

Name and discuss major contributing countries to immigration into the United States.