AAPI Cultures Quiz 1 - Assimilation

Bhangra is...

• Popular Punjabi folk dance

• Used to celebrate harvest time

• Created by laborers and workers

• All of the above

Southall was known as Little India

• True

• False

(a)   was essential to selling Bhangra albums because Bhangra was not sold in high-end music stores yet

Why did Bhangra never make it into the national charts?

Answer explanation

Bhangra albums were mostly sold in grocery and corner stores -- which didn't always register the amount of Bhangra albums or cassettes that were being sold.

What was a solution to get Bhangra to the people, in particular young women and girls?

• Concerts in public spaces

• Late-night clubs

• Day-time gigs

• Public radio

Answer explanation

Indian people were not allowed in British Clubs to begin with -- so day-time gigs became a way to make Bhangra more accessible for Indian teenagers who couldn't stay out late.

In the 1990s in Birmingham, the artist Bali Sagoo was experimenting between adding Bhangra and (a)   beats due to growing up around large Indian and Afro-Caribbean communities.

The term "Asian American" was first coined in the...

• 1880s during Chinese Exclusion Act

• 1910s during World War 1

• 1920 during women's suffrage movement

• 1960s during Civil Rights Movement

Anne Anlin Cheng, whose book “The Melancholy of Race,” published in 2000, offers a theoretical framework for considering grief and mourning as defining vectors of the racial experience. She concludes that:

• One is melancholic simply because of the experience of racism

• Melancholy, and its dynamics of loss and recovery, are the foundations for racial identity.

• Racism is melancholic.

• One is melancholic because of race

Studies show that:

• Asian Americans are the most economically diverse racial group in the U.S.

• Asian Americans are less likely than general population to seek out counseling.

• All of the above

What's a familiar immigrant narrative

• Meritocracy is real and immigrants prove it

• Pull yourself up by the bootstraps works

• Children of immigrants often feel like they have to make up for their parents' sacrifice

• None of the above