Chapter 5

Question 1

Compare new immigration and past immigration

Answer 1

• volume of immigration is larger
• new residents are primarily latino and asian

Not European like in earlier immigration eras

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

the process by which indicduals or groups adopt the culture of another group. Losing their original identity. A principal indicator is language.

Question 3

Parachute child

Answer 3

arrive to pursue educational opportunities not foudn in their homelands

These children live on their won or with relatives or host families

Question 4

Quota system

Answer 4

The Immigration Act amendments of 1965 abandoned
the quota system that had preserved the European
character of the U.S. for nearly half a century.

Question 5

Effects of Medicare and Medicaid coverage on middle class and lower middle classes

Answer 5

Medicaid provides for the poor. the middle class and the near poor if 65 or older have medicare but it does not cover long term health care.

Question 6

Agency

Answer 6

human agency. the elderly have a devalued status in the U.S society.

as the elderly in numbers their spheres of political influences will increase as well because they account for 20% of the voting public.

Question 7

Adoption and biculuralism

Answer 7

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