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SOP 4731

Chapter 7Living in Multicultural Worlds

1)The findings from acculturation research are less coherent than many other topics largely because

2. When will you NOT see an adjustment phase after experiencing culture shock?

3. Imagine that Georgi moved to Canada from Bulgaria about a year ago. We might expect that he

4. Which of the following people is most likely to experience an L-shaped acculturation curve?

5. Idra, a European university student, has moved to another country indefinitely to start a new career. He is currently experiencing anxiety, helplessness, and homesickness. Based on research on acculturation curves, what do you expect to happen with Idra next?

6. How does cultural distance differ from cultural fit?

7. The First Nations tribe that has been most successful (of the ones studied) at adjusting to mainstream Canadian settler traditions has been the

8. The Kingdom of Zorblax is about to colonize a bunch of aboriginal tribes living on a foreign continent. The culture of Zorblax is characterized by a system in which people live on collective farms and take what they need from those farms. Which of the following foreign aboriginal tribes will experience the LEAST amount of acculturative stress under the Kingdom of Zorblax?

9. Which of the following is reliably associated with reduced acculturative stress?
10. Miley is an extremely agreeable person who is very considerate and polite to others. She thinks that her agreeableness will make her well-suited for adjusting to any culture to which she goes. Based on research, how true is her rationale?

11. Given the current research on personality and acculturation, you can predict that
    1. Jaedong, who is introverted, will acculturate more successfully than his friend Sehoon, who is extraverted.
    2. Jaedong, who is extraverted, will acculturate more successfully than his friend Sehoon, who is introverted.
    3. Jaedong, who is extraverted, will proceed through a more severe period of culture shock on the acculturation curve compared with his friend Sehoon, who is introverted.
    4. Jaedong, who is introverted, will fare worse early on in the acculturation process, whereas his friend Sehoon, who is extraverted, will fare worse over the long run.
    5. Jaedong, who is introverted, will acculturate more successfully in an introverted country than Sehoon, who is extraverted.
12. Your friend Pedram is planning to immigrate somewhere and wants to go to a place where he will have the best chance of adjusting to the new culture. Which of the following should you recommend as being the best place for him?

13. Varun is a Fijian immigrant to Canada. After observing him over time, his friends felt like he was not really participating in Canadian culture, nor did he seem to have much to do with his Fijian roots. Which of the following best describes Varun?

14. Bjorn is a nonvisible minority member, while Trang is a member of a visible minority. Trang is more likely than Bjorn to

            a) experience an L-shaped acculturation curve.

1. 2. have his acculturative stress be influenced by his initial experiences in the host culture.
   3. have a personality with poor cultural fit.
   4. have separation acculturation strategies.
   5. use blending.

15. Given current research on acculturation and health, which of the following would you expect?

16. According to the textbook, which of the following has NOT been noted as a result of becoming more acculturated to North American culture?

17. Stereotype threat occurs because

18. Stereotype threat is
    1. largely in people’s minds and does not affect actual behavior.

                b) limited to the experiences of racial groups that are discriminated against

3. the result of people being unaware of the stereotypes that exist for their groups.

4. experienced most acutely by people low in bicultural identity integration.
5. measured using dependent variables such as task performance and physiological

signs.

19. Yamazonia is a society dominated by homosexual women. Based on this information alone, which of the following people living in Yamazonia is most likely to identify with his or her group membership?
    1. Jayden, a member of the ruling class
    2. Jared, a male worker

                c) Justice, a homosexual female

4. Jordan, a social worker
5. Jamie, a nonvisible minority

20. If I told you that Jamie, an African American from New York (i.e., a member of a visible cultural minority within the United States), experienced identity denial yesterday, this means that, of the following situations, he experienced
    1. a man asking to see Jamie’s ID when he went to the liquor store.
    2. a woman doubting whether Jamie actually likes watching movies.

                c) someone of European descent not believing that Jamie was born in New York, insisting that he must have been born somewhere in Africa.

4. his African American friend insisting that they listen to some German rock music.
5. his mother making him food that his grandmother used to make.

21. Among people who immigrate before they are adults, self-esteem is related to acculturation in that
    1. the more acculturated an individual is, the higher his or her self-esteem.
    2. people with high self-esteem tend to acculturate more quickly than people with low self-esteem.
    3. people’s self-esteem comes to approximate the self-esteem norms in the host culture as they acculturate.
    4. separation attitudes are associated with the highest self-esteem.
    5. greater self-esteem hinders one’s ability to acculturate to the host culture.
22. Which of the following people is the best example of blending?
    1. Loni is able to jump back and forth between her Hawaiian heritage cultural views and her Texan host cultural views.

                b) Dongraegu has embraced both the cultural values of his Korean heritage culture as well as those of his Canadian host culture.

3. Bjorn is from a Swedish town where many people immigrate, leading to a very multicultural atmosphere.
4. Sarah gained a much more interdependent self-construal after spending the last ten years in China, albeit less than that shown by the Chinese.
5. Jürgen has decided to accept the cultural values of his American host culture to fit in better, disregarding values from his German heritage culture.

23. Quang Giáp is from a society where people tend to attribute the behaviors of others as being the result of external pressures. After living in the United States for many years, however, Quang Giáp often finds himself increasingly attributing the behaviors of others as being the result of internal factors. What is this an example of?

1. cultural fit
2. blending
3. marginalization
4. frame-switching
5. cultural distance

24. Which of the following scenarios would most likely lead to Basdeo using frame-switching more than Mel?

25. Your friend immigrated more than a decade ago. While walking on the streets with your friend, he suddenly encounters a store that reminds him of his heritage culture. Which of the following is likeliest to result from that?
    1. Your friend will, at that moment, choose to develop more of a separation acculturation strategy.

                b) Your friend is more likely to think in ways consistent with his heritage culture, at least temporarily.

3. Your friend will be prevented from entering the adjustment phase of acculturation, if he had not entered it already.
4. Your friend will experience heightened acculturative stress.
5. Your friend will temporarily feel like he was less acculturated than he had ever been.