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Chapter 6

Tonight - At Home Assignment

►Create a list of 15 culture traits that

represent your ethnicity.

►If you are unsure as to the definition of

ethnicity, read the chapter.

►Treat this assignment as if you are listing

the cultural landscape of your group.

Ethnic groups – populations that feel themselves bound together by a common

• rigin and set off by other groups by ties of

culture, race, religion, language or nationality. More than 5000 ethnic groups exist in the world.

Ethnic Diversity and Separatism

► Ethnicity – Affiliation with a group whose

racial, cultural, religious or linguistic characteristics or national origins distinguish it from a larger population.

► Unifying bonds of ethnicity;

• 1.)shared ancestry and cultural heritage,

2.)retention of distinctive traditions,

• 3.) maintenance of in-group interactions and

relationships.

Race v. Ethnicity

► Race - A subset human

population whose members share distinctive, inherited biological characteristics.

► Distinguishing people

by race only has been largely discredited by social scientists.

► Ethnicity has a more

meaningful way of showing distinctions in groups of people…that is by culture.

► Culture summarizes

the way of life of a group of people.

►Ethnocentrism – Conviction of the

evident superiority of one’s own ethnic group.

►Host Society – The established and

dominant society within which immigrant groups seek accommodation.

Immigration Streams

►Brief History ►Recent Expanded Immigration

Acculturation and Assimilation

►Amalgamation Theory - The concept

that multiethnic societies become a merger of the culture traits of their member groups.

►Acculturation - Cultural modification or

change that results when one culture group or individual adopts traits of the host society; cultural development through ”borrowing”

►Assimilation - A two-part behavioral

and structural process by which a minority population reduces or loses completely cultural characteristics and blends into a host society.

Volunteer reader

Behavioral Assimilation? Same as acculturation Structural Assimilation? On a larger scale Bringing on common attitudes and values of host culture Involving adoption of ethnic group’s culture traits by host society

Sample Essay Prompt

• A. Define Acculturation and the

Amalgamation Theory

• B. Discuss how any two specific ethnic

groups in the United States are an example of Structural Assimilation.

Competition Theory

The United States has many examples of ethnic groups expanding their role in the culture of the country over time. This “social success” is due to pressures of American urban life and the human desire to strive for social justice. This is called by some the competition theory. The group goes from isolated and struggling into a recognized, self-assertive ethnic minority with an impact and a voice in American Society.

Chapter 6 Project…Due 12/14

Create a collage that reflects the ethnic diversity in the United States. Collage will be constructed on butcher paper that is slightly smaller than poster board (more on this later) You may use magazine pictures or those printed from a computer (no “I can’t” s) You may print text (words) and add it to your collage. Text can be in black and white or color. You may have some black and white pictures, but you should find as many color pictures as possible.

Choose 4 ethnic groups to be represented. Images should reflect the ethnic nature of that

• group. However, some pictures may show the

blending of ethnic culture and mainstream “American” culture. Pictures or words that are derogatory to an ethnic group will be met with extreme hostility.

For this Assignment

►This is not about race….not just pictures of

random faces.

►Professionalism is key….make it worth 50

points.

►Don’t wait until the last minute and do a

shoddy job…it would be better if you didn’t turn it in.

Basque Separatism

1.) Pro scan the reader 2.) Focus on “what is ETA’s cause?” 3.) Summarize those three paragraphs

► First Effective Settlement – The influence

that the characteristics of an early dominant settlement group exert on the later social and cultural geography of an area. Associated with Wilbur Zelinsky.

► Charter group – The early arriving ethnic

group that created the first effective settlement and established recognized cultural norms to which other later groups are expected to conform.

Areal Expressions of Ethnicity

►Ethnic Clusters ►Black Dispersions ►Hispanic Concentrations ►Asian Contrasts ►Immigrant Gateways and Clusters ►French Uniformity

Urban Ethnic Diversity and Segregation

►External Controls ►Internal Controls ►Shifting Ethnic Concentrations ►Typologies and Spatial Results ►Native-Born Dispersals

Cultural Transfer

►Interacting Influences ►Culture Rebound

The Ethnic Landscape

►Land Survey ►Settlement Patterns ►Ethnic Regionalism

Today you will;

• 1. Create an essay prompt
• 2. Create a graphic organizer
• 3. Finish your collage
• 4. Staple the collage to the wall
• 5. Get copy of 7.1 Reading Guide

Create an Essay Prompt

► There will be no essay on Friday’s test. ► You will look over the notes you have taken on the

ethnic conflict readers and the film.

► Consider how AP test creators could turn this

information into an essay question.

► Write an essay prompt that focuses on ethnic

conflict in the world.

► Be sure that the essay question; 1.) that has

several parts to it, 2.) has parts that ascend in difficulty…remember 3 levels of questioning, 3.) is answerable with the information in your notes

Using a graphic organizer, outline the essay as if you were going to write it

►Nearly 40% of U.S. census respondents

indicated they used a language other than English in the home in 2000.

• False
• Only18%

►Ethnocentrism is fostered by territorial

segregation.

• True

► Despite recent increases in their urban

employment rates, most African Americans still reside within the rural areas of the southeastern states.

• False
• “most”…remember the great migration

► Acculturation is accelerated when an immigrant

group differs sharply from the host culture and must make positive efforts to achieve acceptance.

• False
• When immigrants “sharply differ” they don’t acculturate

►Long-lot settlement patterns reflect the

English tradition of villages clustered around “commons”.

• False
• Avec non longtemps champs commons et

villages pour angleterre… Francais tres bien!

►Cultural distinctions based on ethnicity

are more prominent in urban than rural areas of the U.S. True

►The proportion of foreign-born among the

U.S. population steadily declined during the 20th century to reach its lowest point ever in 1999.

• False
• Over 30% note…foreign borns have increased

►Ethnocentrism is the feeling of the

superiority of one’s own ethnic group.

• True

► Social distance is an expression of the travel time

separating two ethnic groups.

• False
• Has to do with the degree of segregation and

integration

► In both North America and Europe, each

distinctive ethnic group has a recognized territorial homeland.

• False
• Ethnicity is a spatial concept but not all ethnic groups

have their own land

►Ethnicity always contains a spatial or

territorial implication

• True

►Asians were the largest immigrant group to

the U.S. between 1990 and 2000

• False
• “Hispanics” were the largest ethnic group to

immigrate to the U.S. between 1990 and 2000

►The sizable Mexican American population of

the U.S. is primarily rural in residence and bracero in employment

• False
• Recently more urbanized and less bracero

►By their early and initial dominance, the

British established the majority culture in North America

• True

► Once established, immigrant communities place

their place their cultural stamp upon their residential neighborhoods and tend to become permanently located there.

• False
• Page 201, ethnic communities are not usually

permanent, example Flushing Queens NY

► The U.S. is the only really multiethnic state among

the world’s large countries.

• False
• An ethnically pure nation state is no longer realistic,

example Japan

► Multiethnic societies everywhere have experience

a recent reduction of cultural pluralism and ethnic divisions as a result of better communication and economic development.

• False
• There has a a resurgence of cultural pluralism as of late

► Over 30% of total U.S. population growth between

1990 and 2000 was accounted for by legal and illegal immigration

• True

►A United States surveyor’s township

contains 36 numbered sections, each one mile on the side.

• True

►Native Americans have retained areas of

residential concentration in homeland territories once occupied by ancestors before European colonization.

• False
• The reservation system, for the most part,

placed Native Americans in non-homeland areas

►Until 1760, most Canadian settlers came

from France.

• True

►Language barriers have discouraged small

business formation among U.S. immigrant groups.

• False
• Ethnic small business owners cater to the ethnic

groups in their neighborhoods

►The early northern ghetto represented a

“toehold” location in high-density, aged substandard housing on the margin of the CBD.

• True

►Chain migration encouraged the creation of

immigrant neighborhoods in North American cities.

• True

Study guide

►Read through the first 20 notes on the

study guide

►Discuss each note ►Determine the 5 most confusing or unclear

notes and write them up on 1 page

►I will clarify these notes on Thursday ►Use the time wisely