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What is the difference between ethnicity and race? |
| | A) | Race is a biological reality, while ethnicity is a cultural construction. |
| | B) | Ethnicity is the politically correct term for race. |
| | C) | A race is an ethnic group that is assumed to have a biological basis. |
| | D) | The terms are synonymous. |
| | E) | All of the above are correct. |
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What are the two kinds of status discussed in the textbook? |
| | A) | achieved and stunted |
| | B) | ascribed and circumscribed |
| | C) | achieved and circumscribed |
| | D) | achieved and ascribed |
| | E) | ascribed and stunted |
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Minority groups: |
| | A) | are always outnumbered by the majority group. |
| | B) | always speak a different language from the majority group. |
| | C) | are the opposite of ethnic groups. |
| | D) | have less secure access to resources than majority groups. |
| | E) | All of the above statements are correct. |
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Which of the following statements regarding assimilation is not true? |
| | A) | Assimilation best describes the process by which immigrants are integrated into Brazilian society. |
| | B) | Like Brazil, the U.S. is an assimilationist society. |
| | C) | Assimilation is best represented by the "melting pot" model. |
| | D) | Assimilation involves minority groups giving up their traditional traditions and adopting the patterns and norms of its host country. |
| | E) | Assimilationist societies generally lack ethnic neighborhoods. |
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A plural society: |
| | A) | combines ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups. |
| | B) | has many different official religions. |
| | C) | has many different official languages. |
| | D) | is a society that has been colonized by more than one colonial power. |
| | E) | is one in which ethnicities have been replaced by pluralities. |
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What is discrimination? |
| | A) | Discrimination is the process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit. |
| | B) | Discrimination is the devaluing of a group because of its assumed behavior, values, abilities, or attributes. |
| | C) | Discrimination refers to the belief that behavior and social organization are biologically determined. |
| | D) | Discrimination refers to policies and practices that harm a group and its members. |
| | E) | All of the above statements regarding discrimination are true. |
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De facto discrimination refer to: |
| | A) | the legally sanctioned policies and practices that harm a group and its members. |
| | B) | the process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit. |
| | C) | practiced, but not legally sanctioned discrimination. |
| | D) | the combining of ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups. |
| | E) | All of the above statements are correct answers. |
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Which of the following statement regarding the tripartite racial scheme of white, yellow, and black is not true? |
| | A) | The terms do not accurately describe skin color. |
| | B) | Many populations do not neatly fit into any one of the three racial categories. |
| | C) | The categories are based on arbitrary phenotypic traits. |
| | D) | Colonial empires created these categories to neatly separate Africans, Asians, and Native Americans from the white Europeans |
| | E) | There are no problems with the tripartite racial scheme of white, yellow, and black. |
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Social race differs from biological race because: |
| | A) | a biological race is assigned to groups in a culturally arbitrary manner. |
| | B) | social race refers to meaningful genetic differences between populations. |
| | C) | social race is a politically correct term for biological race. |
| | D) | social race is a cultural construction that is based on arbitrary distinctions. |
| | E) | there is no difference between social and biological race. |
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Which of the following statements regarding hypodescent is true? |
| | A) | It automatically places the children of a union or mating between members of different groups in the minority group. |
| | B) | It is how race is determined in the U.S. |
| | C) | It divided American society into groups that have been unequal in their access to wealth, power, and prestige. |
| | D) | Its operation explains why the populations in the U.S. labeled "black" and "Native American" are growing. |
| | E) | All of the above statements regarding hypodescent are true. |
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Which of the following statements regarding burakumin is true? |
| | A) | They are full citizens of Brazil. |
| | B) | Their residences are dispersed in and among the residences of non-burakumin. |
| | C) | They typically perform manual labor to make a living. |
| | D) | They are physically and genetically different from the rest of the Japanese population. |
| | E) | Their status as outcasts originated just after World War II. |
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As discussed in the textbook, the Japanese system of racial classification is most similar to that found in: |
| | A) | India |
| | B) | Brazil |
| | C) | Russian |
| | D) | United States |
| | E) | None of the above, the Japanese system of racial classification is unique. |
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Due to the lack of hypodescent in Brazil, what is happening to the number of people classified in intermediate racial categories? |
| | A) | The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories is declining. |
| | B) | The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories has stayed the same over the last 100 years. |
| | C) | The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories are increasing. |
| | D) | Intermediate racial categories in Brazil have never played an important role. |
| | E) | The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories is increasing, but not nearly as fast as the number of people classified in intermediate racial categories in the U.S. |
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The rigidity of the racial terminology used in the U.S. is in part due to the fact that: |
| | A) | whites actively worked to maintain racial distinctions between themselves, Native Americans, and slaves. |
| | B) | most of the early European settlers frequently married Native Americans. |
| | C) | slave owners in the U.S. never had sexual relations with their slaves. |
| | D) | the offspring of a union between a female slave or a Native American women and a European settler were assigned to a new intermediate category. |
| | E) | the early European settlers were mostly women. |
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Compared to systems of racial classification in the U.S. and Japan, the Brazilian system of racial classification: |
| | A) | uses many more terms. |
| | B) | is considerably more fluid. |
| | C) | does not use hypodescent. |
| | D) | is significantly more flexible. |
| | E) | All of the above statements regarding the Brazilian system of racial classification are true. |
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