Religion and Asian America: Immigration

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  1. 1. Yoga has its roots in which religion?
  2. 4. To which religion do most Asian Americans belong?
  3. 5. How many preference categories are there for immigration into the United States?
  4. 8. Asians came to the United States in different ways. As the assigned readings for this week show, some who came were called immigrants, others who came were classified more specifically as what?
  5. 11. In which state is Angel Island, the infamous facility that often detained many Asians seeking entry into the United States in oppressive conditions for months, located?
  6. 12. A comparison was made between the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and a 2016 proposal to register immigrants who belonged to which particular religious tradition?
  7. 13. Which state did the first Asians arrive in the United States?
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  1. 2. It’s often been said that the United States of America is a nation of immigrants, but there are two groups who cannot possibly be understood as immigrants to this country, what is the first group?
  2. 3. How many millions of Asian Americans are there according to the 2022 census?
  3. 6. Which country has the largest number of Muslim population?
  4. 7. What is the term being used to describe transnational shuttling of immigrant families between USA and their country of origin?
  5. 9. A group of people in the United States who cannot be classified as immigrants despite the talk that we are "a nation of immigrants"?
  6. 10. Which amendment guarantees freedom of religion to the people of the United States?
  7. 14. Where was Buddhism’s land of origin?