Exam 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views

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

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

Briefly explain who benefits the most from Anglo-conformity,cultural pluralist,and separationist perspectives.

According to the Anglo-conformity model,which goals concerning assimilation have both groups agreeing that the other's group members will be accepted as close friends and members of their primary groups?

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

Describe ten ways in which America has become a pluralist society,providing evidence for your claims.

When majority and minority group members have the belief that they are part of the same ethnic group,________ assimilation has occurred.

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

Prejudices are rarely judgements of others.

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

Describe the basic differences between separationist and secessionist ideologies.How might the U.S.Federal Government respond to a large scale movement from either of these perspectives?

Define cultural assimilation by substitution and by addition and provide an example for each.

The most important alternative to assimilation theory is ________ ________ according to the authors.

The authors argued that according to the Anglo-conformity model,the very meaning of the word "American" had become:

According to your text,as the English colonized the North American continent,the Native Indians had to conform or:

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

Which model do the authors use as their reference point for this book?

Structural assimilation focuses on ________ relationships,according to Gordon.

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

Blauner argued that "the communities of color in America share essential conditions with Third World nations abroad." These include all of the following,except: