Exam 14: The Future of Ethnicity

The basic faith of the cultural pluralists is that consensus on the principles of American economic and political life does not require a/an ________ to the will of the dominant group.

Most early colonial immigrant groups took exactly three generations to assimilate.

The authors claim that the once-colonized American ethnic groups have gone from being centrifugal to:

In a June 7,1999 Newsweek survey,Blacks felt that it was impossible to feel truly ________ in America.

The main criticisms of the colonial model rest on efforts to show all the following,except:

According to the authors,White people are rarely forced to think about:

Most U.S.Asian groups are English dominant as adults.

The complexity of U.S.society has made it extremely difficult for ethnic groups to maintain or ________ a centrifugal relationship with the majority.

Italians were great candidates for Anglo-conformity assimilation in the United States.

The condition of conquest is most important in the alternate view,not the conquest itself.

Which period of immigrants have merged so highly with the American core that they would be considered completely assimilated?

Alba and Nee (1997)found that "there is abundant evidence that assimilation has been the ________ among the descendants of the immigrants...who mainly came from Europe...before 1930."

The immigrant model ________ deny the validity of the colonial model in some instances.

Early court ruling found some ethnic group members to be non-White.

A continuing and pressing problem is the failure to afford ________ for secondary assimilation to every American who wishes it.

Estimates of bilingualism among second- and third- generation immigrants are probably:

Most Indian tribes have resisted assimilation only in the last century.

Serbs set out on a campaign of Albanian ethnic cleansing.

Relationships between dominant and subordinate groups at the time the relationship forms fix the relationship forever.

When subordinate group members try to find mutually satisfactory ways to bring dominant and subordinate groups together it is referred to as a: