AAS 210 Flashcards REAL EXAM 2025
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 500
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
"ghettos"
What were difficulties SEA immigrants faced when resettling in the US? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Unfamiliar with English, US culture
- Those from rural unfamiliar with urban areas
- Downward occupational mobility
- Psychological scars/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Racism
- Racialization as unassimilable foreigners
- Foreigner racialization is getting separated as a danger to the US
- Violence
How does Thi Bui's "The Best we Can do" showcase the hardships of SEA refugees?
- CORRECT ANSWER - How does her graphic novel reflect the SEA refugee
experience
- Humanizes it
Shows the trauma, father is abusive
- Artist and activist - new graphic novel on SEA refugee detention and deportation
- Supported teacher's strike in Oakland Unified School District
When was the peak of the Asian American movement's activism? (AAM) -
CORRECT ANSWER 1960's-1980's
What did AAS focus on in the 1960's? - CORRECT ANSWER Broader struggles
against racism, oppression and power
,Who made up a large part of the AAM? - CORRECT ANSWER College students and
community members with organizing experience/concern for the community
Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Formed in 1968
- Co-founder coined the term "Asian American"
- re-rooted the AAM in solidarity
- pan-ethnic identity
What was the AAM fighting for overall? - CORRECT ANSWER - Social program
improvements so they meet community needs
- Housing rights (predominantly anti-evictions, think I-Hotel/Manilatown)
- Unionizing on worksites
- Education rights (Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies)
- Democratic rights
AA Issues in LA/Little Tokyo - CORRECT ANSWER - largely surrounding the issue of
displacement, similar to I-Hotel, the Sun Hotel was fighting consistent evictions
What is the legacy of the Asian American Movement? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Transformed AA consciousness, made people consider themselves AA too, not just
with an Ethnic Identifier
- Empowered disenfranchised communities
- Ethnic Studies/AAS programs and departments
What were the major effects of the Global Economic Restructuring after the weak
economy in the 60s/70s? - CORRECT ANSWER - Capitalism changed or shifted to
becoming a more intermeshed, interdependent global market economy rather
than nation-based
- Laws and policies passed that were harsher to Unions
- Replacing laborers with cheaper workers
Deindustrialization - CORRECT ANSWER - Manufacturing being moved overseas
- Deregulation, Defunding of public sector, Welfare state cut, and Assault on labor
- some refer to this as late capitalism or neo-liberal capitalism
argued government involvement
,Globalization & it's effect - CORRECT ANSWER Shift to a global service-based
economy; made a middle class through home-ownership, social programs
Interracialism - CORRECT ANSWER - interethnic/interracial coalitions and
solidarity
- commonalities between races in regards to exploitation, oppression, and
imperialism
Internationalism - CORRECT ANSWER - The belief that nations must engage in
international problem-solving.
- linked with imperialism and capitalism
Service-Based economy - CORRECT ANSWER - More high end, white-collar jobs
- Legal, business, administrative, and financial services, particularly in what Sassen
calls "global cities'
- Also more Low-skill, Low-paid manufacturing/service jobs (immigrants, women
often take low-paid, undesirable jobs,
Undocumented particularly vulnerable, exploited,
Nannies, domestics, restaurants, sweatshop assembly)
"Brain Drain"/Laborer "exports" - CORRECT ANSWER - When a country is
recruiting educated, skilled workers from developing countries to advanced
capitalist nations
- Country gains skilled labor without supporting training costs
How did the shift to a service-based economy/1990 amendments impact the
growing class divide? - CORRECT ANSWER Emphasis on skilled labor/professional
visas
(more upper/middle-class AA immigrants;
Investor Visa)
- Emphasis on family reunification for immediate kin
- Families usually share socioeconomic status = professionals bringing more
professionals
- Working-class AA can only enter through family reunification and there is a huge
backlog for certain nations
- Increased undocumented migration
(overstaying a visa isn't violating criminal law)
, - Increased deportation
Why did Filipinx nurses flee to the US? - CORRECT ANSWER Nurses fleeing high
unemployment, national debt
Thanks to Western and Spanish colonialism
(Rise of manufacturing jobs, taking resources)
How were Filipinx nurses that came to the US treated by the pinoy community?
How did this perception later change? - CORRECT ANSWER - Initially seen as
national traitors, contributing to healthcare worker shortage (leaving the
Philippines behind, In reality, these workers were sending home money, gift boxes,
etc, and stimulating the economy from the outside)
- 1970's, praised as "long lost daughters" and national heroes under Marcos'
export-oriented economy
the export was workers; SO they could stimulate the economy from the outside
Importance of H-1 to Filipinx nurses? - CORRECT ANSWER - H-1 was a temporary
worker Visa, and a lot of Filipinx nurses were able to come to the US and study
western medicine under that temporary visa; in 1965 after the employment
preferences were put in place, many were able to come permanantly
Difficulties of Filipinx nurses - CORRECT ANSWER - Need an employer sponsor
- only lasted 3 years
- no guarantee you could change your status and get a green card and become a
permanent resident
- racism/discrimination at work (stationed in more dangerous areas like big cities,
"English Only" worksites
What were the difficulties Filipinx nurses faced during licensing exams? - CORRECT
ANSWER Failing the section that has to do with psychiatric nursing specifically
(Failure meant temporary work status revoked, eligible for deportation)
Model Minority Image/Stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER Argues Asian Americans
are successful due to traditional Asian cultural values;
Hard work, reverence/respect for learning, morality, thrift, respect for
parents/authority
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 500
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
"ghettos"
What were difficulties SEA immigrants faced when resettling in the US? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Unfamiliar with English, US culture
- Those from rural unfamiliar with urban areas
- Downward occupational mobility
- Psychological scars/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Racism
- Racialization as unassimilable foreigners
- Foreigner racialization is getting separated as a danger to the US
- Violence
How does Thi Bui's "The Best we Can do" showcase the hardships of SEA refugees?
- CORRECT ANSWER - How does her graphic novel reflect the SEA refugee
experience
- Humanizes it
Shows the trauma, father is abusive
- Artist and activist - new graphic novel on SEA refugee detention and deportation
- Supported teacher's strike in Oakland Unified School District
When was the peak of the Asian American movement's activism? (AAM) -
CORRECT ANSWER 1960's-1980's
What did AAS focus on in the 1960's? - CORRECT ANSWER Broader struggles
against racism, oppression and power
,Who made up a large part of the AAM? - CORRECT ANSWER College students and
community members with organizing experience/concern for the community
Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Formed in 1968
- Co-founder coined the term "Asian American"
- re-rooted the AAM in solidarity
- pan-ethnic identity
What was the AAM fighting for overall? - CORRECT ANSWER - Social program
improvements so they meet community needs
- Housing rights (predominantly anti-evictions, think I-Hotel/Manilatown)
- Unionizing on worksites
- Education rights (Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies)
- Democratic rights
AA Issues in LA/Little Tokyo - CORRECT ANSWER - largely surrounding the issue of
displacement, similar to I-Hotel, the Sun Hotel was fighting consistent evictions
What is the legacy of the Asian American Movement? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Transformed AA consciousness, made people consider themselves AA too, not just
with an Ethnic Identifier
- Empowered disenfranchised communities
- Ethnic Studies/AAS programs and departments
What were the major effects of the Global Economic Restructuring after the weak
economy in the 60s/70s? - CORRECT ANSWER - Capitalism changed or shifted to
becoming a more intermeshed, interdependent global market economy rather
than nation-based
- Laws and policies passed that were harsher to Unions
- Replacing laborers with cheaper workers
Deindustrialization - CORRECT ANSWER - Manufacturing being moved overseas
- Deregulation, Defunding of public sector, Welfare state cut, and Assault on labor
- some refer to this as late capitalism or neo-liberal capitalism
argued government involvement
,Globalization & it's effect - CORRECT ANSWER Shift to a global service-based
economy; made a middle class through home-ownership, social programs
Interracialism - CORRECT ANSWER - interethnic/interracial coalitions and
solidarity
- commonalities between races in regards to exploitation, oppression, and
imperialism
Internationalism - CORRECT ANSWER - The belief that nations must engage in
international problem-solving.
- linked with imperialism and capitalism
Service-Based economy - CORRECT ANSWER - More high end, white-collar jobs
- Legal, business, administrative, and financial services, particularly in what Sassen
calls "global cities'
- Also more Low-skill, Low-paid manufacturing/service jobs (immigrants, women
often take low-paid, undesirable jobs,
Undocumented particularly vulnerable, exploited,
Nannies, domestics, restaurants, sweatshop assembly)
"Brain Drain"/Laborer "exports" - CORRECT ANSWER - When a country is
recruiting educated, skilled workers from developing countries to advanced
capitalist nations
- Country gains skilled labor without supporting training costs
How did the shift to a service-based economy/1990 amendments impact the
growing class divide? - CORRECT ANSWER Emphasis on skilled labor/professional
visas
(more upper/middle-class AA immigrants;
Investor Visa)
- Emphasis on family reunification for immediate kin
- Families usually share socioeconomic status = professionals bringing more
professionals
- Working-class AA can only enter through family reunification and there is a huge
backlog for certain nations
- Increased undocumented migration
(overstaying a visa isn't violating criminal law)
, - Increased deportation
Why did Filipinx nurses flee to the US? - CORRECT ANSWER Nurses fleeing high
unemployment, national debt
Thanks to Western and Spanish colonialism
(Rise of manufacturing jobs, taking resources)
How were Filipinx nurses that came to the US treated by the pinoy community?
How did this perception later change? - CORRECT ANSWER - Initially seen as
national traitors, contributing to healthcare worker shortage (leaving the
Philippines behind, In reality, these workers were sending home money, gift boxes,
etc, and stimulating the economy from the outside)
- 1970's, praised as "long lost daughters" and national heroes under Marcos'
export-oriented economy
the export was workers; SO they could stimulate the economy from the outside
Importance of H-1 to Filipinx nurses? - CORRECT ANSWER - H-1 was a temporary
worker Visa, and a lot of Filipinx nurses were able to come to the US and study
western medicine under that temporary visa; in 1965 after the employment
preferences were put in place, many were able to come permanantly
Difficulties of Filipinx nurses - CORRECT ANSWER - Need an employer sponsor
- only lasted 3 years
- no guarantee you could change your status and get a green card and become a
permanent resident
- racism/discrimination at work (stationed in more dangerous areas like big cities,
"English Only" worksites
What were the difficulties Filipinx nurses faced during licensing exams? - CORRECT
ANSWER Failing the section that has to do with psychiatric nursing specifically
(Failure meant temporary work status revoked, eligible for deportation)
Model Minority Image/Stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER Argues Asian Americans
are successful due to traditional Asian cultural values;
Hard work, reverence/respect for learning, morality, thrift, respect for
parents/authority
