Misc. I
In what war did the U.S. gain possession of the Philippine Islands?
Spanish-American War, 1899.
What was the reason that Japanese Americans did not resist being put into internment camps?
They felt that cooperating might lead to sympathetic consideration later when tensions subsided.
What does the term "Yellow Peril" mean?
A racist color-metaphor that people from East Asia are an existential danger to the Western world.
How did the 911 attack on the World Trade Center affect China town in NYC?
China town was close enough to the devastation that it had a significant decline in tourism and shipments to the garment industry. China towns struggle with poverty and problems associated with slums.
What is the most populous country in the world.
China
What does the term "Brain Drain" refer to?
The immigration of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed in their home countries.
What was Executive Order 9066?
The authorization by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 to remove those of at least 1/8th Japanese ancestry on the west coast for transfer to internment camps.
How are Asian Pacific Americans likely to identify themselves?
By their country of origin.
Secret societies in China are called __________.
Tongs.
What does Affirmative Action refer to?
Positive efforts to recruit subordinate group members for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities.
What does the term Xenophobia mean?
The fear or hatred of strangers or outsiders.
The first children born to the first Japanese immigrants in the U.S. are called ________.
Nisei
What does the term "Model Minority" mean?
The perception that Asians have succeeded economically, socially and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
What does the term "Tiger Mom" refer to?
Refers to a demanding mother who pushes her children to high levels of achievement following practices common in China and other parts of Asia.
What does the term "Blaming the Victim" refer to?
Portraying the problems of racial and ethnic minorities as their fault rather than recognizing society's responsibility.
Which groups immigrated from from Southeast Asian to the U.S.?
Vietnames, Cambodians and Laotians.
What was the Mitsuye v. United States ruling?
When the Supreme Court ruled on December 18, 1944, that the detainment was unconstitutional and that the defendant must be granted freedom.
Groups of laborers were brought to Hawaii from which four Asian countries to work the sugarcane plantations?
China, Japan, Philippines and Korea
China and India combined have overtaken what immigrant group to the U.S.?
Mexico
What is the term used for the development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups?
Panethnicity.
What three Asian groups are associated in a negative way with three wars?
Vietnamese, Japanese and Koreans.
In cities, Japanese, more than any other group, ran hotels, grocery stores, and other medium sized businesses. Why was that?
The government and union restrictions prevented many from obtaining jobs, leaving self-employment as the only option.
Which group of APA immigrants is second only to Chinese Americans.
Asian Indians, India and their descendants. This group numbers over 2.8 million.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Ended all Chinese immigration for more than 60 years.
Denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination.