Exam 4: What Are the Keys to Understanding Cultural and Ethnic Ide

As a Puerto Rican American, Carlos identifies strongly with the larger U.S. culture and identifies weakly with his ethnic heritage, traditions, and values. In the ethnic-cultural identity typological model, James is practicing which of the four options?

Ben has never been to Israel. He and his family celebrate their Jewish heritage by involvement in a synagogue, the celebration of holidays and traditions, and learning Hebrew. Ben's _______ is Jewish.

What are the implications of an encounter between a European American and a member of a minority group who is in the immersion-emersion stage of the racial-ethnic development model? What misunderstandings and misinterpretations might occur?

Sabina strongly identifies herself as being a "U.S. American" and, at the same time, strongly identifies with her ethnic Iranian heritage. Her identity is reflective of which identity option?

Samantha has lived in the United States all her life. She has been socialized into U.S. American culture and internalized its primary cultural values. She has been _______ into an "American" identity.

Briefly describe the difference between acculturation and enculturation, using yourself as an example.

Your parents are from El Salvador, and you were born and raised in L.A. You're often quite confused about your ethnic and cultural identity in the U.S. culture-you don't feel very "mainstream American," or very El Salvadorian either. Your identity reflects the _______ identity type.

Social identity can include information such as a person's unique characteristic of being very sociable.

Briefly describe the difference between social and personal identities and give an example of each.

You can code-switch fluently between acting very individualistic and assertive to very collectivistic and diplomatic. Your behaviors reflects a(n) _______ identity.

Briefly describe the four stages of the racial-identity development model.

Siene is the first female-and oldest person-to be hired as a firefighter in her city. She focuses on this unique set of identities when she is at work, but when she leaves work and goes home, Siene leaves her firefighter identity behind and fluidly switches into her relational identity role as a stepmom. Which pattern of social identity strategy does she employ?

In the immersion-emersion stage of the racial-ethnic identity development model, an individual experiences a "racially shattering" event.

"Acculturation" refers to the primary socialization process of immigrants in their original home culture wherein they have internalized their core value patterns.

White U.S. Americans have a symbolic ethnicity and can choose to either identify with their European heritage or be an individual, apart from their ethnic heritage group.