Deck 6: Asians and Asian Americans

Question 1

Regarding Asian Americans and education,

A) all Asian Americans are well-educated.
B) there are higher percentages of Asians with college degrees and higher percentages of Asians without high school degrees than Whites in both categories.
C) Asians resisted affirmative action at the University of Michigan.
D) Asian Americans view American education as inferior and avoid any involvement in it.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

As a model minority, Asians do experience access discrimination, but not treatment discrimination.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Asians are over-represented in management in technical fields.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which of the following is true of Asians?

A) Southeast Asians are more likely to have significant greater English proficiency than other Asians due to American involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
B) Asians are almost on public assistance (e.g., welfare) unlike some other minority group members.
C) Some discrimination against Asians occurs because of perceptions they have been too successful.
D) Perceptions of language barriers contribute Asians' progress.

Question 5

The portrayal of Asians as the "model minority"

A) encourages other minority groups and Whites to strive for success.
B) ignores differences among Asians and barriers they face.
C) demonstrates how unemployment, underemployment, and misemployment do not affect Asians.
D) is due to their success in developing computer models for various purposes.

Question 6

Which of the following is true of Asian women at work in the U.S.?

A) Asian immigrant women are likely to work in family-owned businesses, computer manufacturing, or the garment industry.
B) They earn more than Asian men in the U.S.
C) They earn more than White women in the U.S. at all educational levels.
D) They are not exposed to the discrimination that usually results from being a double minority.

Question 7

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first federal legislation to bar immigrants based on national origin.

Question 8

Asian Americans' employment experiences

A) almost always result in access and favorable treatment.
B) has thus far avoided an encounter with the glass ceiling.
C) include being steered to jobs deemed inappropriate for them.
D) are sometimes shaped by stereotypes and media representations.

Question 9

In terms of workforce participation and education, which of the following is not true?

A) Asian men are more likely to be participating in the workforce than men overall.
B) Asian women are more likely to be participating in the workforce than White women.
C) African American women participate in the workforce more than Asian women.
D) Asians are less likely to have completed high school than Whites.

Question 10

Which of the following is true of White and Chinese railroad workers in the 1800s?

A) Chinese workers were paid more than White workers.
B) Labor market competition between White and Chinese workers fueled lynching of White workers.
C) Federal legislation purposefully restricted entry of Chinese laborers into the U.S.
D) Chinese were only permitted to work on Chinese railroads if the railroads were owned by Americans.

Question 11

The majority of Japanese who were interned during World War II were U.S. citizens.

Question 12

Immigration laws that affected Asians

A) included the Chinese Inclusion Act.
B) historically preferred Asians because of their strong work ethic and high education levels.
C) restricted immigration of minorities from other ethnic groups while allowing for immigration of Asians.
D) included a restriction that allowed 105 Chinese to enter the U.S. per year.

Question 13

Asians with college degrees earn about 13% less per year than Whites with college degrees.

Question 14

Which is true of the relationship between Asians and diversity concerns?

A) Asians did not participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
B) Asians experience employment discrimination along with other minority groups.
C) Asians attitudes toward affirmative action are more similar to Whites than those of other minority groups.
D) There is no relationship between Asians and diversity concerns.

Question 15

Regarding Asians' earnings

A) large numbers of Asians reside in cities having high costs of living and this reflects Asians earnings relative to other racial groups that are more geographically dispersed.
B) There are less Asians living in poverty than Whites.
C) Asians' high education levels contribute to their freedom from earnings discrimination.
D) much is unknown about their earnings since most of it is unreported.

Question 16

Asian Americans have a bimodal distribution of educational attainment.

Question 17

Regarding the internments of people believed to be a threat to national security during World War II,

A) about 50% of Japanese Americans were ordered to be interned.
B) about 40% of Germans and Italians were ordered to be interned.
C) people who had at least 1/8th Japanese ancestry were included.
D) the U.S. government has refused to provide reparations (payments) for those who were interned.

Question 18

In the 2005 Gallup Poll study Asian Americans reported experiencing less discrimination than Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites.

Question 19

In research on the effects of having an Asian (Chinese or Indian) or White name in selection decisions

A) Chinese applicants received the lowest suitability ratings.
B) because of their higher qualifications, White applicants were more likely to be chosen than Chinese or Indian applicants.
C) results were very different from results in the study that investigated the effects of having a Black-sounding name.
D) because of their higher qualifications, Chinese and Indian applicants were more likely to be chosen than White applicants.

Question 20

Asians who come to the U.S. are less likely to become naturalized citizens than immigrants from any other country.

Question 21

Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing racial/ethnic groups in America.​

Question 22

Filipinos were the first people of Asian descent to arrive in the U.S.

Question 23

As a minority group in the United Kingdom, Asians experience marginalization and unemployment.

Question 24

Asian Americans actually have the lowest educational level of racial/ethnic group with only a very few who have completed a college degree.​

Question 25

In 1922 an Asian with white skin was not categorized as White for immigration purposes.​

Question 26

​Asian Americans have long been and continue to be far more negatively viewed than any other ethnic/minority group. That view has been made even stronger as a result of numerous U.S. military involvements in Asia.

Question 27

Racial classifications in the U.S. census of people of Asian descent have changed multiple times.

Question 28

"Positive" stereotypes of Asian Americans may contribute to their overrepresentation in higher-level organizational positions.

Question 29

Asian Americans are unlikely to experience the glass ceiling.

Question 30

A 1922 court ruled that Asian Indians were Caucasian but were not White.​