The process by which formerly distinct and separate groups merge and become one group.
What is assimilation?
100
A general term for a variety of programs and ideas that stress mutual respect for all groups and for multiple heritages that have shaped the U.S.
What is multiculturalism?
100
Organizes work in a society, connects individuals to one another and to the larger society.
What is social structure?
200
When an immigrant group has enrolled in school, has appointments at the Immigration service, and seeks work through the Dane County Employment Service, for example.
What is structural assimilation? (extra points for saying secondary sector)
200
Hmong and Latino families that speak only their native language and practice their own religious traditions are examples of this type of pluralism.
What is cultural pluralism?
200
Encompasses all aspects of life associated with a group of people from language to how they interpret their existence.
What is culture?
300
In 2010 15% of all marriages were inter-ethnic or inter-racial, for example.
What is intermarriage or marital assimilation?
300
By the second generation many Latinos and Hmong families have learned some English and celebrate many American holidays but maintain separate churches and social clubs as examples of this type of pluralism.
What is Structural Pluralism
300
The English language, private property, Protestant Christianity, punctuality, for example
What is Americanization?
400
Taking English as a Second Language classes, for example.
What is cultural assimilation?
400
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the owner of the Kiwk-E-Mart on the Simpsons, for example.
What is a Middleman Minority Group?
400
In this form of cultural adaptation, immigrant groups retain some of their native culture.
What is pluralism?
500
Laws that forbid the practice of Native American and African religions, for example.
What is coerced or forced assimilation?
500
These 2 examples of pluralism constrast with Gordon's assumption that first groups must acculturate (take on American values) before they can integrate.
What are Ethnic Enclaves and Middleman Minority Groups
500
Jews, Irish, Southern Italians for example
What groups of European immigrants who were not considered White at the turn of the 20th Century.