Deck 16: Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage Us Husbands

Question 1

In a pattern that Thai refers to as the marriage gradient, ______ tend to "marry up" to spouses who are better educated and higher earning, whereas ______ tend to "marry down" to spouses who have less educated and less money.

A) Americans; Vietnamese
B) migrants; locals
C) women; men
D) men; women

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why are marriages against Vietnamese social norms between low-wage men and high-education women becoming more common?

A) The marriage squeeze has resulted in too many men to women in the United States and too many women to men in Vietnam.
B) Women in Vietnam are becoming more educated in general and men find them attractive.
C) Working class men typically work long hours, meaning they have less time to select suitable partners.
D) Highly-educated Vietnamese women are marrying low-wage American men.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In Vietnam, at what age are women often stigmatized and considered unmarriageable?

A) 25
B) 28
C) 32
D) 40

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a desired by the women in Thai's study regarding their future families?

A) desire to work for a wage
B) desire to return the nuclear family to Vietnam
C) desire for a respectful marriage based on gender equality
D) desire to break tradition and not live with their husband's family as a dutiful daughter-in-law and wife

Question 5

The high mortality rate during the Vietnam War, combined with the migration of a larger number of men than women, has produced what demographers call ______.

A) the marriage bind
B) the Viet Kieu
C) the double marriage squeeze
D) the marriage gradient

Question 6

What do you think will happen to Minh and Thanh? What circumstances have led to their union? Do you think their marriage will be successful?

Question 7

Explain the double bind facing women like Thanh from Thai's reading. What is different about the path she chose after high school? How is that affecting her now?

Question 8

What percentage of couples in split marriages in Thai's sample had their marriages arranged?

A) 0%
B) 9%
C) 48%
D) 90%

Question 9

The couple presented in Thai's reading, Minh and Thanh, represent an increasingly common pattern of highly-educated women in Vietnam marrying ______.

A) highly-educated men living abroad
B) Vietnamese low-wage workers living abroad
C) family friends in Vietnam of lower class
D) older American men looking for companionship

Question 10

When a Vietnamese American sends money to their family still living in Vietnam, it is called ______.

A) an allowance
B) a salary
C) a stipend
D) a remittance