The continent where nearly 2/3 of the world’s 6+ billion people live. | Asia |
The most common "native" language in the world. | Mandarin Chinese |
The second most common "native" language in the world. | Hindi |
The third most common "native" language in the world. | English |
The official language of more countries than any other. It is also understood and spoken to some degree by 1/4 to 1/3 of humanity. | English |
The number of the world’s 5,000-6,000 languages that are no longer spoken by children. | about 1/2 |
The term for the progressive emergence of a single worldwide economic system and the simultaneous reduction in global cultural and political differences. | globalism |
The term for a strong sense of identity with one's ethnic group, tribe, or nation. This has been a counter force to globalization in recent years. | tribalism |
The kinds of societies whose languages are in most danger of being abandoned by their children today. | languages of small indigenous societies |
The source of most numerical data on ethnicity and "race" in the U.S. | national census taken every 10 years |
The one major group in the U.S. that is counted as an “ethnic group” rather than a “race” in the national census. | Hispanics |
The criterion for assigning individuals to specific "races" based on only a distant hereditary relationship. It has been used in North America to label people as African even if they were mostly European in biological ancestry. (Hint: this is also known as the "drop of blood" criterion.) | hypodescent |
The most numerous “racial” group in the U.S. according to the year 2000 Census. (Hint: 75.1% of the people counted in the census claimed to be of this “race”.) | “whites” (or European Americans) |
The second most numerous “racial” group in the U.S. according to the year 2000 Census. (Hint: 12.3% of the people counted in the census claimed to be of this “race”. Keep in mind that “Hispanics” were not counted as a “race”.) | “Blacks” (or African Americans) |
The two fastest growing “racial” groups in the U.S. (in terms of percentage growth) according to the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. (Hint: there was a 46.3% increase in the number of people in these groups between 1990 and 2000.) | Asian and Pacific Islander |
In comparing Hispanics and non-Hispanics, the fastest growing group in the U.S. according to the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. (Hint: one of these groups increased by 57.9% and the other increased only by 8.7% during this 10 year time period.) | Hispanic (or Latino) |
The largest minority group in the U.S. (Hint: this group makes up over 12.5% of the entire U.S. population.) | Hispanic (or Latino) |
The largest number of Hispanics in the U.S. claim this as their nation of ancestry. (Hint: this sub-group consists of 58.5% of all U.S. Hispanics.) | Mexico |
The term for the model of the U.S. society in which immigrants and native ethnic/racial minorities are assimilated into the dominant national culture. Those who prefer this model for America generally advocate encouraging assimilation in order to reinforce national unity. | melting pot |
The term for the model of the U.S. society in which the permanent existence of unassimilated and partially assimilated ethnic/racial minorities is accepted and encouraged. | multiculturalism (or pluralism) |