List at least three reasons why Asian-Americans are sometimes nicknamed a "model minority?"
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Parents are highly educated and work in professional jobs; (2) they have the highest family incomes of any group; (3) are most likely to go to college and graduate, and go on to graduate or professional school; (4) Asian-American families also have the lowest rate of divorce; (5) their children are more likely to reside in married-couple households than are any other race or ethnic group.
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Hochschild and Machung note that since the latter half of the 20th century, women's tasks at home have
a. become more complex. b. stayed about the same. c. been reduced.
________ is defined as a negative attitude toward an entire category of people.
A) Prejudice B) Ethnocentrism C) Pluralism D) Panethnicity
A person who is serving as a parent, but who is not biologically related to the child, is termed a(n)
A. grandparent. B. secondary parent. C. psychological parent. D. none of these.
Which of the following is true of second-wave feminism?
A. It argued that women could perform equally to men given the opportunity. B. The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements impeded activist efforts. C. The movement was inclusive of women of all races, sexual orientations, and class backgrounds. D. Well-educated, professional women were not drawn to the revival of feminist thinking.