Exam 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views

Separationists do not seek for a total separation from mainstream society.

Structural assimilation focuses on ________ relationships,according to Gordon.

Natives had little influence on the survival and subsistence of the European settlers.

A complete merger means no more prejudice nor discrimination will occur between the minority group and dominant group members.

Gordon did NOT believe that a merger of two groups was inevitable in his model of assimilation.

Any group wishing to complete Anglo-conformity assimilation must go beyond intermarriage.

The authors ignore the issue of the beliefs different people hold concerning how the ethnic groups of our society ought to relate to one another.

In Chapter Two,the authors keep their discussion of assimilation at the:

Any group wishing to complete Anglo-conformity assimilation must continue to struggle over values and power.

"Americans" from the earliest periods in 1600s history came to mean English speakers.

According to Chapter Two,many of the ________ did not move through all of the levels of assimilation and they did not necessarily want to do so.

According to Gordon,a group may assimilate ________ without necessarily proceeding through the remaining levels of assimilation.

The authors divide Gordon's typology into all of the following except:

The melting-pot ideology ________ the idea that the Anglo-American core should remain as it was before assimilation occurred.

The Europeans displaced the Native Indians in America,then assumed they were the natives.

An unfavorable attitude toward people because they belong to a certain group is called:

When minority groups assimilate,yet remain distinguishable,they have probably experienced cultural assimilation by addition.

In Chapter Two,the authors list ________ subprocesses of assimilation that may lead to a situation in which subordinate and dominant groups become indistinguishable from one Another.

If a minority immigrant group trades their culture and adapts the mainstream culture,then they have practiced assimilation by:

If a minority immigrant group keeps their culture and adapts the mainstream culture,then they have practiced assimilation by: