In: Psychology
Please Choose True or False.
I. Children are the most exploited of oppressed people.
2. Developing nations have the highest number of poor,
diseased,
and child deaths.
3. The term "modernization" does not have an ethnocentric
bias.
4. Jobs in industrialized urban areas offer the best means of
upward mobility in developing countries.
5. Mexico is a core country in the world economic system.
6. Asian Americans are commonly viewed as an ideal minority.
7. An ethnic group is identified by physical differences.
8. Boise. Idaho, has accepted more Syrian refugees than Los
Angeles.
9. Refugees and Asylees are the same group of people.
10. Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed
from
their families to be raised by Whites up until the 1970's.
11. The Nazi's exterminated only Jews during WWII.
12. The largest racial minority in the U.S. is Jewish
Americans.
13. Race is an earned status.
14. A person can discriminate without being prejudiced.
15. Minority groups nearly all receive unequal treatment.
16. The contact hypothesis says that when people of tincq tia.I
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work together they become less prejudiced.
17. The first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court was
Sandra
Day O'Conner.
18. Prejudice and discrimination is the same thing.
19. Suburban communities are becoming more homogenous.
20. Southeast Asians living in the U.S. have the highest rate
of
welfare dependency of any racial or ethnic group.
21. In 2012 there were 927 anti-semitic attacks in the U.S.
22. Affirmative Action is an attempt to recruit minorities for
jobs.
23. The "Black Power Movement" of the 1960's rejected
assimilation.
24. One third of the girl's schools in Pakistan have no
buildings.
25. Millions of people in India, China, and Brazil have moved
into
the middle classes.
26. Women Filipinos are fighting to protect ancestral lands.
27. "Living Goods" has reduced the death rate among children
under 5 by 27%.
28. The U.S. gives a higher % of its GNP in foreign aid than
Sweden.
29. The International Monetary Fund is a major player in the
global
economy.
30. Those who are poor in developing countries can still
afford.'
healthy lifestyle.
31. Nearly one billion people live on less than $2 a day.
32. The world's poor eat dirt to add minerals to their diet.
33. Globally, immigrants from developing nations send about
$430
billion per year to their home countries.
34. Symbolic ethnicity is a deep commitment to one's ethnic
heritage.
35. White ethnics include 36 mill ion Irish Americans.
36. In the 1920's, U.S. immigration policies gave preference
to
Africans.
37. For the past 5 decades, the majority of immigrants to the
U.S.
have come from outside Europe and Canada.
38. Color-blind racism is an attempt to use racial neutrality
to
defend a racially unequal status quo.
39. After the Paris attacks, half of the governors in the
U.S.
declared their states would accept no West European refugees.
40. At the end of the 19 th century, the practice of Native
American
cultures was prohibited.
41. 1 out of every 4 African Americans is poor.
42. In Saudi Arabia, women cannot walk alone in public.
43. The gap between the rich and the poor in Mexico is one o
the
widest in the world.
44. Either prejudice or discrimination can be present without
the
other.
45. Over the past three generations, there is growing support
for
integration, interracial dating, and the election of minority
group
members to public office.
46. Urban living is more harmful to women than rural living
by
weakening social support and financial assistance.
47. The European safety net of public assistance is much lower
than
that of the U.S.
48. Tax breaks, grants, and bailouts are considered
"corporate
welfare".
49. Blacks represent 7% or less of all doctors, engineers.
scientists.
college professors, lawyers, and marketing managers.
50. The Supreme Court terminated Jim Crow laws in 1896.
1. True (The children are not aware of the world system thus they become the easy target of unfair or cruel use of power and exploited by oppressed people).
2. True (In developing countries the chronic disease are the causes of death, the major cause of death in children is diarrhea due to poor quality of water).
3. False ( the term modernization means education, mass communication, ideology, values and attitude, science and other knowledge, modernization in fact is biased and ethnocentric evaluating others culture according to the preconception cultural differences among nations).
4 False ( Urban industrialization do not produce enough jobs for those who wanted to work, there is a large wage difference between rural and urban areas, crop failure and warfare greatly influenced social mobility).
5. False (Mexico comes under semi-periphery countries they are characterized by extensive lands, like Brazil, Indonesia, India, and Iran, they have organization feature of both core and periphery countries).
6. True (Asian American are taken as a model minority, it is based on stereotypes, the narrative is that Asian minority children are whiz kids or musical genius).
7. False ( the ethnic group is identified depending upon its cultural characteristics like language, history, religion, and customs and not on physical appearance, the race is distinguished on the basis of physical appearances)
8. True (Bois Idaho the City of Trees, has accepted more refugees compared to New York and Los Angeles ).
9. False ( Asylee is the person who is already present in the country where he is seeking asylum as he fears prosecution in his country of nationality and seeking admission at a port of entry. and refugee is the person who is outside his country of nationality and wants to take refuge fearing prosecution in his country on the basis of race religion, although asylee meets the definition of a refugee, his claim has not yet been definitively evaluated.
10. True (thousands of aboriginal children and Torres Strait Islander children were forcefully separated from their families that are commonly known as a stolen generation).
11 True (The Nazis had targeted European Jews and called it Final Solution to the Jewish question by exterminating thousands of Jews)