Question

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 slum!, 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. Expert Answer

Answer 1

1.true

Explanation : oppression can be defined as the state of being oppressed that is the use of authority in cruel or unjust manner on a person, group or population. Children are the most exploited among the oppressed people as they aren't aware of their rights and in many developing nations laws to protect child abuse isn't available. Example : India. (no laws to protect kids from physical abuse especially by parents). Thus these two factors lead to their exploitation the most and therefore the statement is true.

2.True

Explanation : Developing countries are classified as one on the basis of the industrial growth, standard of living and infant mortality rate. As compared to developed nations, developing nations have the largest number of poor, diseased and child deaths.

3 . False.

Explanation : The term modernisation can be defined as the process of transformation from a rural, agricultural set up to a secular, industrialised one. Generally the east has society based more on agriculture. Thus the greatest criticism of modernisation is that it actually means to become more like west in order to become morally superior. Therefore this term is ethnocentric and the statement false.

4 . False.

Explanation :Generally developing countries has less urbanisation. The societies are still largely agricultural. Therefore having jobs that are solely in industrialised urban areas won't alone help for upward mobility. Therefore the above statement is false.