What caused increased attention to Middle Eastern immigrants and the construction of Middle Easterners as a minority group within the U.S.?
a. the Iranian hostage crisis
b. the first Gulf War
c. Operation Desert Storm
d. the September 11, 2011, World Trade Center bombings
e. the Oklahoma City bombings
Question 2Explain the demographic transition.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3Which of the following is not a source of the success of Jewish Americans?
a. their willingness to work hard
b. their emphasis on family responsibility
c. the high value they place on education
d. the skills many Jewish immigrants brought with them
e. their easy assimilation into mainstream American society
Question 4Explain the concept of exponential growth.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5What is symbolic ethnicity?
a. ethnicity associated with urban enclaves or neighborhoods, like Chinatown
b. ethnicity that is attributed to people based on their race or skin color
c. an optional identity expressed primarily through food and holiday traditions
d. an ethnic identity that one is born into but has rejected
e. ethnicity associated with political movements, such as Black Power
Question 6What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 7Most scholars believe that Asian Americans have been especially successful in the United States because they
a. possess superior intelligence.
b. profit from illegal activities such as gambling and prostitution.
c. embrace education as the key to success.
d. refuse to work at jobs that do not pay well.
e. value work more than family.
Question 8Why is infant mortality used as an indicator of the health status of a population?
What will be an ideal response?