Race and Asian Americans Quiz

What is race?

• A category that groups people based on intelligence

• A system of advantages and disadvantages that groups of people experience

• A social category based on assumed biological or cultural differences between populations

• A competition where competitors try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time.

What did Europeans use to justify race?

• Results of an IQ test

• Scientific evidence based on anthropology and biology such as brain sizes and skin color

• Geographic location

• The enjoyment and accomplishment gained from colonization of non-Europeans

True or False? Racism against Asians centered around ideas that Asians were foreign, strange, and alien. They were a threat to Anglo-American culture and values.

• True

• False

To be effective in the Asian American community, one must:

• Make Asian friends

• Get a PhD in Asian and American studies

• Eat all types of Asian foods

• Understand how Asians are racialized in the US

True or False. Asians are the model minority

• True

• False

• I don't know