Flashcards - Final exam - Orientalism deficit model of ethnic identity

Marsha F.

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Orientalism

The simplistic view of the people and histroy of the Orient with no recognition of change over time or the diversity within its many cultures

deficit model of ethnic identity

One's ethnicity is viewed by others as a factor of subtracting away the characteristics correspondin to some ideal thnic type

hajj

Pilgrimage to Mecca to be completed at least once in a Muslim's lifetime

jihad

struggle against the enemies of Allah, usually taken to mean on'es own internal struggle

blended identity

Self-image and worldview that is a combination of religious faith, cultural background based on nationality, and current residency

hijab

a variety of garements that allow women to follow guidelines of modest dress.

racial profiling

Any arbitrary police initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior

Islamophobia

A range of negative feelings toward Muslims and their religion that ranges from generalized intolerance to hatred.

Model or Ideal Minority

group that, despite past prejudice and discrimination, succeeds economically, socially and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with whites.

blaming the victim

portraying the problems tof racial and thenic minorities as their faulth rather than recognizing society's responsibilities.

yellow peril

A Term denoting a generalized prejudice toward asian people and their customs

racial profiling

any arbitrary police initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior.

panethnicity

The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic and Asian American

desi

Colloquial name for people who trace thri ancestry to South Asia, especially India and Pakistan.

arranged marriage

When one's marital partner is chosen by others and the relationship is not based on any preexisting mutual attraction.

gook syndrome

David Riesman's phrase describing American's tendency to stereotype Asians and to regard them as all alike and undesirable

Viet Kieu

Vietnamese living abroad, such as in the United States

ilchomose

the 1.5 generation of Kroean Americans-those who immigrated into the United States as Children

kye

Rotating credit system used by Korean Americans to subsidize the start-up costs of businesses.

Haoles

Native Hawaiians' term for Caucasians

sovereignty movement

Effort by the indigenous people of Hawaii to secure a measure of self-governemtn and restoration of their lands.

tsu

clans established along family lines and forming a basis for social organization by chinese americans

hui kuan

chinese american benevolent assocaitons organized on the basis of the district of the immigrant's origin in china

tongs

chinese american secret assocations

cultural capital

noneconomic forces such as family background and past investments in education that are then reflected in knowledge about the arts and language

social capital

collective beneftis of durable social networks and their patterns of reciprocal rtust

issei

first generation immigrants from Japan to the US

Nesei

Children born of immigrants from Japan

Sansei

The children of the Nesei-that is the grandchildren of the original immigratns from Japan

Yonsei

The fourth generation of Japanese Americans in the US; the children of the Sansei

Kibei

Japanese Americans of the Nesei generation sent back to Japan for schooling and to have marriages arranged.

evacuees

Japanese Americans interned in camps for the duration of WW II.

anti-se,otos,

anti-jewish prejudice or discrimination

Judaization

the lessening importance of judiasm as a religion and the substitution of cultural traditions as the tie that binds jews

fringe-of-values theory

behavior that is on the border of conduct that a society regards as proper and is often carried out by subordinate groups, subjecting those groups to negative sanctions.

in-group virtues

Proper behavior by one's own group that became unacceptable when practiced by outsiders (out-group vices)

out-group vices

in-group virtues that became unacceptable when practiced by outsiders

holocaust

the state-sponsored syystematice persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.

Holocaust revisionists

people who deny the nazi effort to exterminate the jews or who minimize the numbers killed

Zionism

Traditional Jewish religious yearning to return to the biblical homeland, now used to refer to support fro the state of Israel

Diaspora

The exile of Jews from Palestine

Kashrut

Laws pertaining to permissible (kosher) and forbidden foods and their preparation

Yiddishkait

Jewishness

halakha

Jewish laws covering obligations and duties

marginality

the status of being between two cultures at the same time, sucha as the status of jewish immigrants in the US

people hood

Milton Gordon's term fro a group with a shared feeling

Anti-Semitism is prejudice and discrimination toward

Jews

Non Jews are called

Gentiles

The Holocaust refers to

The state policy of persecution and annihilation of Eurpoean Jews

Between 1933 and 1945, the percentage of Polish German, and Austrian Jews murdered was

90%

Holocaust revisionists are people who

claim that the holocaust did not happen

Which of the following is true in relation to anti-Semitism and employment in the U.S.?

a. In 1956, a survey of employers in San Francisco revealed that one in four discriminated against Jews in hiring.

b. In 1998, a survey revealed that 71% of Jews see anti-Semitism as a problem, but not necessarily in hiring.

c. Jewish Americans as a group have overcome barriers to full employment.

d. all of these

ANSWER D

Which branch of Judaism has the lowest proportion of wealthy and well-educated adherents?

Orthodox Judiasm

Yiddishkait refers to

a sense of Jewishness

The position of an individual being Jewish in a largely Christian nation is described by the sociological term

marginality

concept of peoplehood is used to

describe a shared feeling of Jews as a group.

When a group experiences prejudice and discrimination, yet seems to have succeeded economically, socially, and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites, they are said to be a

model minority

The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans contains an implicit critique of Blacks, Hispanics, and others for failing to succeed as well as the model minority has. This could be viewed as yet another instance of

blaming the fictim

The term yellow peril captured which of the following characterizations of Asian people?

a. heathen

b. drug addicted

c. savage

d. all of these

D. all of these

Mistaken identity by the media occurs when

American citizens of Asian descent are presented as if they are foreigners

The lack of significant Filipino social organization is due to

. time consuming obligations to the family and the church.

In 1882, Congress enacted legislation prohibiting the immigration of

Chinese

One paradox of Chinatowns is that

their image of bright lights and exotic sounds conceals widespread poverty

Chinatowns today

a. represent cultural decompression chambers for new arrivals.

b. are a symbolic focus for Chinese Americans.

c. serve as an identity source for younger people.

d. all of these

The term Issei refers to

Japanese immigrants to the U.S

Which President is responsible for the order to place Japanese Americans in evacuation camps during WWII?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Final exam

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