Deck 13: Ethnicity and Belonging

Question 1

Which of the following statements provides the best definition of second-generation migrants?

A) Those with two parents born overseas
B) Those with one or more parents born overseas
C) Those born in Australia with one or more parents born overseas
D) Two generations of families who have migrated to Australia

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is ethnicity primarily derived from?

A) Country of birth
B) Ancestry
C) Religion
D) Time spent in Australia

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following statements about ethnic identity is correct?

A) Ethnic identity is fixed and unchanging
B) Ethnic identity is dependent on how long someone has lived in Australia
C) Ethnic identity is fluid
D) Ethnic identity is an invention used to further the interests of various groups

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to one view of ethnicity, what do primordial attachments arise from?

A) Blood, speech, and custom
B) Religious affiliation
C) Place of birth
D) Familial bonds

Question 5

Which of the following statements represents an instrumentalist/constructivist view of ethnicity?

A) Ethnicity is the result of ancestry, a common language, and shared traditions
B) Ethnicity is subjective and subject to change and selective appropriation
C) Ethnicity is substantially related to the geographic place of birth
D) Ethnicity is fundamentally about ancestral background

Question 6

Which of the following statements best describes the intention of assimilation policy?

A) The idea of respecting cultural diversity as a central aspect of a common culture
B) The idea that cultural differences are inevitable and thus naturally co-exist with the dominant culture
C) The idea that diverse cultures can be combined in a social 'melting pot' to produce a new common culture
D) The idea that diverse cultural groups adapt to the dominant culture and discard their distinct cultural heritage

Question 7

What is the work of Herbert Gans most closely associated with?

A) The importance of ethnic boundaries
B) Symbolic ethnicity
C) The links between biology and behaviour
D) Moral panics

Question 8

What is the term for a religiously and/or ethnically defined group of people dispersed from their country of origin (often due to political violence)?

A) Hybridity
B) Migration
C) Transnationalism
D) Diaspora

Question 9

When was the Immigration Restriction Act, a measure that marks the official beginning of the White Australia policy, introduced?

A) 1801
B) 1901
C) 1946
D) 1973

Question 10

When were the final vestiges of the White Australia policy removed?

A) 1901
B) 1950
C) 1973
D) It is still in place