Race in L.A.

Take the Cultural

Competency Quiz
Think you know your way around I L LU ST R AT I O N S BY

multicultural L.A.? Keep guessing PETER HOEY

Name: ____________________________________ Age: ____ 8) What is Saigu?

Occupation: _____________ No. of years in L.A. _______ a. A Korean word that

refers to the 1992
Race/Ethnicity: _____________________________________
riots, translating as
“4-29”
b. South Ameri-
5) How many cans for Integration
10) Abbot Kinney
Armenians live in Los and Greater Union,
developed the
Angeles County? L.A.’s leading Brazil-
Oakwood area, on
ian advocacy group
a. 75,000 Pico between 14th
c. A Thai sauce used
1) Mariachi music b. 100,000 and 24th streets,
in noodle dishes
originated in the c. 200,000 in the early 1900s
to impart umami
Mexican region d. 1 million to house:
d. The Salvadoran
of _______________.
singer born in a. Mexican farmworkers
Los Angeles and b. African American
6) Which is the largest
adored throughout servants
2) TRUE OR FALSE: Asian group in the city?
Central America c. Chinese shipbuilders
Most Arab Americans a. Taiwanese
d. Whites, who made
are Muslim. b. Thai
it a whites-only
c. Chinese
❍ True ❍ False enclave
d. Filipino

3) Match the term with the definition:

11) What led to the
a. Chicano b. Latino c. Hispanic
9) When did the Los greatest spike in
1. 2. 3. Angeles City Coun- the city’s African
People Activist Only cil make it illegal American
of Spanish Mexican people of for places like the population?
or Americans Latin American vaunted California
a. Gold Rush-related
Latin American descent Club downtown
jobs in the mid-1800s
descent to discriminate
b. The downtown build-
against minority
ing boom in the 1920s
admissions?
c. Railroad jobs
4) What country 7) Who was living
a. 1973 in the early 1900s
is the source on Los Angeles soil
b. 1987 d. Shipbuilding and
of the second- before the city
c. 1965 other war-industry
largest group was founded in 1781?
d. Never jobs in the 1940s
of Spanish-
a. The Maya
speaking
immigrants
b. The Sioux T H E R E S U LT S
c. The Tongva
in the city? The answers are YO U R S CO R E YO U R STAT U S
d. The Aztecs on page 170. 30 Cultural commodore
a. El Salvador After you tally
25-29 Multicultivore
b. Guatemala your score, it’s
time to rank 20-24 Probationary Angeleno
c. Puerto Rico
yourself. 15-19 Salt Lake City transplant
d. Nicaragua
T E ST N O. 789 9 / 75 63 / 9 95 4
14 OR LESS Icelandic ambassador

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APRIL 2012
 12) Among these recipients of a star on the 20) The first Latino 26) The decade in L.A.
Hollywood Walk of Fame, who drew the largest crowd? mayor of Los Ange- that saw the larg-
les was elected in: est increase of im-
migrants from Gua-
a) 1866 b) 1853
temala, El Salvador,
c) 2005 d) 1906
Honduras, and
Nicaragua was_____.
a. Actress b. Singer c. Sir d. Actress
Reese Vicente Paul Jennifer
Witherspoon Fernández McCartney Aniston 27) What led to that
sudden influx?
a. The search for
13) Which L.A. land- 17) Approximately how better jobs
mark served as a many languages 21) Eso Won Bookstore b. A massive drought
temporary detention are spoken in the in Leimert Park in Central America
center for Japanese Greater Los specializes in books c. Political terror
Americans who were Angeles area? by and about: and oppression
being relocated to at home
a. 70 a. African Americans
the Manzanar intern- d. L.A.’s movie industry
b. 130 b. Asian immigrants
ment camp during
c. 100 c. Latinos
World War II?
d. 120 d. Native Americans
28) Central Americans
a. Pan Pacific Center
settled in what part
b. Santa Anita Park
of the city?
c. Los Angeles Coliseum 22) Proposition ______
d. Hollywood Bowl banned the use of a. Pico-Union
racial preferences in b. MacArthur Park
California college c. Koreatown
18) Where is the
admissions. d. All of the above
popular sriracha
hot sauce
14) A pool game manufactured?
23) Which of the following ingredients is not
played by Koreans is
a. Hanoi traditionally found in kimchi?
noteworthy because:
b. Mexico City
a. The pool tables c. Rosemead
hang from ropes d. Phuket
b. The pool tables have a. Onions b. Cabbage c. Rice d. Sugar
no pockets or holes
c. The pool tables are 19) In the 1930s,
on the floor residents of 24) What is Tet? 29) What language is
d. It’s played Los Angeles’s a. The number seven in spoken by Iranians?
underwater original Chinatown Korean
a. Iranian b. Tagalog
were evicted from b. The tyrant who caused
c. Farsi d. Persian
their homes, which a mass exodus from
15) By 1934, one-third were then razed Honduras
30) 1 out of ______
of all Japanese immi- in order to make c. The Vietnamese
people living in L.A.
grants on the West- room for the new year
was born outside
side were employed construction of d. A popular fruit sold in
the United States.
as ______________. _________________. Guatemalan markets

16) Match the neighborhood with its designated 25) The ancestors of most Arab Americans in L.A.
ethnic enclave: County come from which of the following countries?

a. Thai Town 1.East Hollywood

b. Historic Filipinotown 2.Long Beach
c. Cambodia Town 3. Westwood
d. Little Persia 4. Echo Park
a. Egypt b. Lebanon c. Iraq d. Iran

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