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

Question 1

The term _______ refers to the reflective self-conception or self-image that we each derive from family, gender, cultural, ethnic, and individual socialization processes.

A) ethnicity
B) coculture
C) individualism
D) identity

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Emma's _______ identity can include the facts that she is female, an attorney, and Latina; while her _______ identity can include that facts that she is outgoing and disorganized.

A) culture; social
B) social; cultural
C) social; personal
D) personal; social

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Hector is a fun-loving Mexican American instructor of intercultural communication at a major U.S. university. From the above description, his personal identity is

A) fun-loving.
B) Mexican.
C) Mexican American.
D) instructor of intercultural communication.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Lilia grew up in a close family consisting of her parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. What type of family is this?

A) Traditional family
B) Extended family
C) Blended family
D) Co-cultural family

Question 5

_______ refers to the meanings and interpretations we hold concerning our self-image and expected other-images of femaleness and maleness.

A) Gender identity
B) Gender hierarchy
C) Self-construal
D) Cultural identity

Question 6

Genders that do not fall into a male or female category are referred to as

A) assimilated.
B) nonbinary.
C) marginal.
D) bicultural.

Question 7

The degree of identity change that occurs when individuals move from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar one describes what process?

A) Acculturation
B) Enculturation
C) Interdependence
D) Marginalization

Question 8

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.

A) acculturated
B) enculturated
C) adapted
D) marginalized

Question 9

The "socioeconomic conditions" of a country in welcoming or rejecting incoming cultural strangers/immigrants can be located as a _______-level factor.

A) social media
B) systems
C) individual
D) network

Question 10

Kareem's family was motivated to emigrate to Sweden due to Sweden's job and educational opportunities and overall quality of life, which are considered _______ motivational factors.

A) "push"
B) "pull"
C) cultural knowledge
D) interaction-based

Question 11

_______ resources for immigrants consist of support for task related and practical goals, such as help with transportation and filling out job applications.

A) Affective
B) Instrumental
C) Co-culture
D) Social

Question 12

_______ identity involves the emotional significance that we attach to our sense of belonging or affiliation with the larger culture.

A) Personal
B) Co-culture
C) Cultural
D) Ethnic

Question 13

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.

A) personal identity
B) national identity
C) ethnic identity
D) professional identity

Question 14

Jada is African American and views her _______ identity as having its heritage or roots in Africa.

A) national
B) ethnic
C) accommodated
D) assimilated

Question 15

As a Filipino American, you have internalized both small and large power distance value dimensions: at home you communicate respectfully with your grandpa and at work you interact informally with your boss, since your boss prefers casual style. Your identity reflects _______ identity tendency.

A) ethic-oriented
B) assimilated
C) encapsulated marginal
D) bicultural

Question 16

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?

A) Ethnic-oriented identity
B) Bicultural identity
C) Assimilated identity
D) Marginal identity

Question 17

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.

A) ethnic-oriented
B) assimilated
C) bicultural
D) marginal

Question 18

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

A) individualistic
B) bicultural
C) tricultural
D) ethnic-oriented

Question 19

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?

A) Bicultural identity
B) Ethnic-oriented identity
C) Assimilated identity
D) Marginal identity

Question 20

In the _______ stage of the racial-/ethnic identity development model, racial minority members view themselves as part of the mainstream U.S. culture, feel that they are just "regular" U.S. Americans going about their everyday lives, and do not have questions about their ethnic identity issues.

A) encounter
B) pre-encounter
C) immersion-emersion
D) internalization-commitment

Question 21

You've decided to take on personal responsibility to advocate for social justice and genuine equality treatment for all cultural/racial groups in your campus community; you're at the _______ stage of the racial-ethnic identity development model.

A) inclusive internalization-commitment
B) pre-encounter
C) immersion-emersion
D) encounter

Question 22

Mariko experiences a sudden "racially shattering" experience for the first time in her class, when her classmate tells her to "go back to where you belong." She is likely at which identity stage of the racial-ethnic identity development model?

A) Encounter
B) Internalization
C) Immersion
D) Pre-encounter

Question 23

Sam, who is Vietnamese American, takes a renewed strong interest in digging out archival information concerning the Vietnamese American immigrant experience in the U.S., and enrolls in a college class on the topic of "History of Vietnam: From 1975 to Present." Sam is at what stage of the racial-ethnic identity development model?

A) Pre-encounter
B) Encounter
C) Immersion-emersion
D) Internalization-commitment

Question 24

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?

A) Dominance
B) Intersection
C) Compartmentalization
D) Merger

Question 25

The concept of _______ refers to a bicultural individual who upholds double cultural and cognitive knowledge about two cultural groups; and she or he has the capacity of engaging in fluid, adaptive behaviors when facing one of the two groups' audience.

A) light switching
B) frame switching
C) body switching
D) allegiance switching

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

According to the recommendations for validating another person's identity at the end of Chapter 4, it is much more important to pay close attention to personal identity facets of the individual than social identity facets.

Question 29

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.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Briefly describe two of the four options in the cultural-ethnic identity typological model.

Question 34

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

Question 35

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?