ISTL 1000 - Introduction to International Studies » Fall 2019 » Quiz 2

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Question #1
Fitzpatrick and LaGory in ,,
A.   Suburbs
B.   Forests
C.   Deserts
D.   Native American reserves
E.   Inner cities
F.   Swamps
Question #2
What is the urban health penalty (choose 2)?,,
A.   The total effect of poverty, unemployment, inadequate nutrition, poor housing options, high levels of violence, decreasing social services on urban populations comprised of minority and impoverished peoples
B.   A term to refer to what happens to those who live in urban areas who do not properly care for their health and wellbeing.
C.   A term that describes how health risks are structured by social and spatial differences between populations in urban areas, and that these social/ spatial factors influence who experiences what diseases and must be addressed in order to adequately address health and the lack thereof.
D.   The decline in popularity of urban politicians who fail to address the health needs of their constituents.
E.   The tax penalty imposed by the US government on citizens who live in urban areas and do not have health care as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
Question #3
Westerners defined indigenous peoples as partially human or not human. What does Tuhiwai Smith say about the implications of this way of defining a group of people? (choose 4),,
A.   It created more harmonious relationships between the Europeans and the native peoples in the places they colonized.
B.   This way of seeing native peoples has been so normalized that it is difficult to change. Even critical scholars wanting to prove the humanity of the colonized people have been criticized for building their arguments on the foundation of the colonial concept that there are two categories of people: the colonizer and the colonized.
C.   It was used as an argument to justify imperialism and colonialism, colonizers argued they were doing good in "civilizing the savages."
D.   It justified killing or
E.   It was used as an argument to justify imperialism and colonialism, colonizers argued they were doing good in
F.   It created a distance between the colonized and the colonizer.
Question #4
How did imperialism and colonialism look from the perspective of native people whose lands were part of the imperial and colonial project?  (Hint: choose 12),,
A.   Arrival of diseases which killed huge percentages of local populations; sometimes on purpose - used as a weapon of war.
B.   Theft of their land
C.   Their systems of order were invisibilized and disregarded, because according to the colonizers those systems did not exist because they were not civilized enough to have systems of order, valid thought or language.
D.   Devastation, total destruction
E.   Disorder, disconnection from their own ways of thought, histories, languages, landscapes, social relations, ways of feeling, thinking, interacting
F.   Painful struggle, permanent wound
Question #5
In Tuhiwai Smith's book we can see how research is not objective or neutral because (choose 6):,,
A.   It uses specialized language that excludes people
B.   There is a specific set of values on which it is based
C.   It is oriented by the culture from which it emerges
D.   Things such as subjectivity, space and time are understood in a certain way that is different from how they are understood in other places
E.   There is a specific set of values on which it is based
F.   It is based on unstable premises
Question #6
What is essentialism?
A.   The European practice of wanting to determine the essence of native plants and foods based on scientific study.
B.   The idea that certain indigenous groups have that plants, animals, waterfalls, rivers, etc. all have an essence that can be used for healing
C.   The idea that there is a certain unchanging pure essence which determines who is authentically indigenous, a woman, etc. It is sometimes used by the majority group to tell people who are part of the minority in question if they are "really" part of the group of which they claim to be part.
D.   All of the above
Question #7
What are some reasons the author of "The Sound of my Name is Revolution" feels stereotyped and traumatized?
A.   Because people mispronounce and misspell her name a lot
B.   Because people tell her how exotic and romantic her name sounds to them
C.   Because she feels the trauma of the war and that she was taken away from her native land, culture and birth mother by white foreigners
D.   Because systems and governments keep her from finding out about her early life
E.   None of the above
F.   All of the above
Question #8
Julayne specifically challenges which white savior stereotype?
A.   That people from developed countries are more competent than people from developing countries.
B.   That children adopted from "third world" countries are automatically better off because they grew up in the "first world."
C.   That people from the global north can save people from the global south by going to do charity work for them.
Question #9
The students in Crossing Borders emphasize the importance of:
A.   Traveling the world
B.   Learning to speak many languages
C.   Democratic elections
D.   Talking to people from other cultures to get to know them and also the desire to be known for who you are.
Question #10
The United States' "help" to developing countries is described by the characters in Crossing Borders as:
A.   A disgusting in that such a small percent of American income goes to non-political foreign aid
B.   Like the Big Bad Wolf
C.   Resulting from ignorance and not caring for the way people in other countries want to develop their countries.
D.   Bait to get more profit from those countries
E.   A (meddling) finger put wherever in the world there is a problem
F.   All of the above
Question #11
Counter-mapping (choose 6 - from the reading and lecture notes):,,
A.   Reclaims the power of mapping by marginalized groups
B.   Is the practice of re-mapping with GPS what was poorly mapped using antiquated techniques
C.   Is when people count the number of square miles that a certain map contains
D.   Is what oil companies do to show governments where they want to extract oil
E.   Challenges state maps that deny indigenous and other peoples their lands and territorial rights
F.   Is a way of fighting ongoing colonialism

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