Refugees
Which country hosts more refugees than any other across the world?
Turkey
True or False: The percentage of the U.S. population that is foreign-born is the highest it has ever been.
False. Today, that percentage is 13.7%. The highest was in 1890, at 14.8%.
Name three drivers of gender and racial wage gaps.
Job opportunities
Available working hours
Bias and discrimination
Caregiving responsibilities
Amount of unpaid labor performed by women
Immigration status
Which indigenous group did Christopher Columbus encounter when he first landed in the Bahamas in 1492?
The Taino
Which continent is the most linguistically diverse?
Africa - home to an estimated 1,200 to possibly 2,000 languages
Approximately what percentage of the world's refugees are children?
50%
Name five reasons why someone might leave their homeland.
War
Famine
Natural disasters (such as a hurricane)
Man-made environmental disasters (such as a Chernobyl disaster)
Lack of economic opportunities
Name three significant contributors to the correlation between economic inequality and homelessness.
Lack of employment opportunities
Barriers to / decline in availability of public assistance
Lack of affordable healthcare, leading to medical debt
Domestic violence
Mental health / lack of access to affordable mental health resources
Addiction
Who were the original inhabitants of Northampton County, whose cultural center is located at 169 Northampton Street?
The Lenape
What is the most widely spoken language in the world?
Mandarin Chinese
How many people have been displaced across the world, both internally and internationally?
Over 80 million
There are six major pathways to obtaining Legal Permanent Residency (LPR). Name three of them.
A family relationship
Employment sponsorship
Special immigrant status (religious worker, Iraqi or Afghan interpreters and translators, employees of a global organization)
Seeking asylum or applying for refugee status
Being the victim of a crime, abuse, or of human trafficking
Being selected for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program
For every $1.00 made by a white, non-Hispanic male, what is the average in earnings for a Hispanic woman?
$0.57
How many tribal nations are recognized by the U.S. Federal Government?
574
Which major city is considered holy in all three Abrahamic religions?
Jerusalem
One person is displaced every ___ seconds.
2
In FY 2019, what percentage of the total foreign-born population were naturalized citizens?
52%, or around 23 million people
While the black-white income gap in the United States has persisted over time, the difference in median household incomes between white and black Americans has increased. In 1970, this difference was an average of around $24,000. What is this difference today?
Around $33,000
Approximately how many people self-identify as Native American or Alaskan Native in the United States today?
Around 6 million
This language, spoken in the Pyrenees mountain region between Spain and France, is considered a "language isolate", meaning it cannot be classified into a larger language family.
2/3 of the world's refugees come from which five countries?
Syria
Afghanistan
South Sudan
Myanmar
Venezuela
This law, passed in 1924, restricted permanent immigration to the U.S. almost exclusively to countries in northern and western Europe.
The Johnson-Reed Act
In 2018, households with incomes over $130,000 (the top 20%) accounted for what percentage of all U.S. income?
52%
Considering the diversity of indigenous peoples, an official definition of “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. Instead the system has developed a modern understanding of this term based on seven criteria. Name three of them.
Self- identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member.
Historical continuity with pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies
Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources
Distinct social, economic or political systems
Distinct language, culture and beliefs
Form non-dominant groups of society
Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and communities.
The following quote comes from which book, first published in January of 1776?
"It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense