Deck 14: C: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

From which world regions do most of today's immigrants come?

A)Asia
B)Africa
C)South America
D)Europe

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The ancestors of which of the following first settled the lands of the Western Hemisphere?

A)Italian Canadians
B)European Canadians
C)African Americans
D)Aboriginal people

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity?

A)genocide
B)segregation
C)assimilation
D)pluralism

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Discrimination is an unfair belief about an entire category of people.

Question 5

Scientific research shows that there are three biologically pure races.

Question 6

The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of:

A)social distance research.
B)the iron law of oligarchy.
C)the Thomas Theorem.
D)authoritarian personality theory.

Question 7

_____________ is the diversity capital of Canada.

A)Toronto
B)Vancouver
C)Montreal
D)Winnipeg

Question 8

Discuss slavery in Canada and note when and why it was abolished.

Question 9

With whom do we associate Authoritarian Personality theory?

A)Adorno
B)Bogardus
C)Marx
D)Durkheim

Question 10

The existence of Africville in Halifax is an example of:

A)assimilation
B)segregation
C)pluralism
D)miscegenation