Asian American Experience II

Question 1

Cultural Assimilation

Answer 1

Varies from group to group

Japanese most assimilated

Question 2

Secondary Assimilation

Answer 2

Highly urbanized

Very educated

Question 3

Primary/Marital Assimilation

Answer 3

Interracial Friendships

15-34% Outmarriages

Question 4

Minority Group Success

Answer 4

Compatibility between value system in country of origin and US middle class

Question 5

Middleman Minority Thesis

Answer 5

Some minorities occupy an intermediate rather than low-status position

Question 6

Middleman Minority Thesis based on idea that sojourners…

Answer 6

• Work hard and are thrifty
• Take risks in hope of great gain
• Concentrate their funds in line of work that permit easy liquidation

Question 7

Ethnic Enclave Theory

Answer 7

Immigrant workers may be part of a special type of economy that provides unusual routes of upward mobility
Community solidarity

Question 8

1st Wave Vietnamese Refugees

Answer 8

• Educated
• Could Speak English
• Political Refugees

Question 9

2nd Wave Vietnamese Refugees

Answer 9

• “Boat People”

- Economic Refugees

Question 10

Phuc Duc

Answer 10

“Amount of good fortune that comes from meritorious or self-sacrificing action”

Question 11

Astrology

Answer 11

celestial bodies at time of conception impacts the character of an individual

Question 12

Acculturation Process among Vietnamese

Answer 12

Dual Cultural Conflict Theory

Question 13

Dual Cultural Conflict Theory

Answer 13

2nd Generation youth are too Americanized for parents’ liking, but too foreign for American peers