SWORK 350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethnic Enclave, Cuban Americans, Model Minority
1882
• The Chinese exclusion act
1941
• Pearl harbor happened
• And put japenese in internment camps
model minority
• Exaggerated and stereotypical
• Asian American groups are bipolar and that others have profiles that closely resemble
those of colonized racial minority groups
• Cost of living is high, per capita income for Asian americans is lower than the national
average and get lower income returns fr their years of schooling and earn less than
whites of the same educational level
• Serious negative consequences: create pressure and impact mental health
• Japenese were model minority and were successful l
47%
• Percentage of Asian americans that did NOT vote in 2012
• Less than 47% of the Asian population voted in 2012
occupational advances
• Success of Chinese americans and japenese American attributes it to the education of
the second generation
high levels of achievement by 2nd generation
• Asian americans started to get educated more
• Women became more educated
Chinese and Japanese americans
• They had o ilitary presece so they ere’t copetitie i that fight
Excessive individualism
• Excessive individualism is discouraged by Asian cultures
• Asian cultures stress sensitivity to the opinions and judgements of others and the
importance of avoiding public embarrassment and not giving offense
• Stress importance of maintaining the respect and good opinion of others and avoiding
shame and public humiliation
•
Cuban americans
• Ethnic enclave
• Compares to Korean and arab
• Successful enclaves
Younger males
• The younger Chinese americans tended to look beyond the enclave to full their needs
and they abandoned many traditional customs and less loyal to and interested in the
clan and regional associations that the immigrant generation had constructed
Acculturated
• Japenese americans are the most acculturated
11 million
• the number of people that immigrated to his country in this century
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Document Summary
Chinese and japanese americans: they had (cid:374)o (cid:373)ilitary prese(cid:374)ce so they (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t co(cid:373)petiti(cid:448)e i(cid:374) that fight. Cuban americans: ethnic enclave, compares to korean and arab, successful enclaves. 11 million the number of people that immigrated to his country in this century. Haiti less than 1% of populations- immigrants: poorest in the western hemisphere. Chinese immigration in 19th century: by socioecominc forces, pushed to leave their homeland, pulled to the west coast by the gold rush. Arab americans: highest percentage of college graduates compared to whites. 600,000: since the 1980s, the us has averaged 600,000 new comers a year. Dearborn, michigan: make up 30% of the population of dearborn, michigan, the highest percentage of any city in the nation, most successful arab community in america. Mexico in 2012, the census said mexico is the most immigrated and most recent wave largest population. Haitain immigrants ineligible for asylum they are labeled as economic refugees.
