Intro To Area Studies
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- 1.Which of these definitions best describe the notion of race?
- A.
It is an imagined projection of a group of people which creates an essential identity.
- B.
It is a notion of innate, unchanging, biological and physical qualities that you are born with.
- C.
It has a deep connection with modern slavery, colonialism, science and the state.
- 2.The statement; "either the brute is a king, or he's a commoner, or garden nigger" refers to which scenario?
- A.
The reaction of the local Hawaiians to their Prince's skin colour.
- B.
The reaction of the British royalty upon realising the Hawaiian prince was black.
- C.
The reaction of Asian nobility when seeing that the Hawaiian prince was black
- 3.Stoler uses the term metis quite often in her book. What does the term 'metis' refer to?
- A.
Children with parents of different races.
- B.
The Japanese who helped in French missionary operations.
- C.
It was the French name for Vietnamese freedom fighters.
- 4.What was the societal consequences for children of Western women after the process of mixing or rather the creation of amazingly awesome hybrid children?
- A.
The children of Western women where raised by Native women.
- B.
The children of Western women were not given Western citizenship.
- C.
There was no outcome because Western women were not allowed to marry Nativbe men.
- 5.Which of these principles was NOT part of the Japanese right to rule?
- A.
Classical colonial racism: the Japanese are racially superior to their colonies.
- B.
The family principle: our cultures are similar to each other.
- C.
Development/ evolution principle: Japanese society was more advanced and was there to help.
- D.
The civilising principle: the rest of Asia was trapped in backwardness and the Japanese were there to get them to become civilised.
- 6.What was the Van Heutsz monument and what do the Japanese have to do with it?
- A.
It is a monument that the Japanese put up in Indonesia to thank him for leading them into Indonesia
- B.
It is a monument of the general who supressed the Aceh rebellion against the Dutch and the Japanese knocked it down.
- C.
It is a monument the Indonesians put up to thank Van Heutsz for helping them and the Japanese changed it into another monument.
- 7.How did social darwinism NOT effect racism?
- A.
It created competition between societies.
- B.
"Survival of the fittest" became associated with human races.
- C.
It strengthened the status of the wealthy.
- 8.What is Asianism?
- A.
The ideology that present Asians as superior.
- B.
The ideology that Asia is different from the West.
- C.
The ideology that all people originated from Asians.
- 9.In Thomas Friedman's article "Our new baby" about the US in Iraq has tendenices towards;
- A.
Racism because he showed that Americans were superior to the Iraqi's.
- B.
Orientalism because it showed the Iraqi's government as non-progressive.
- C.
Imperialism because the United States soldiers were fighting for something higher thn themselves.
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