Ethnicity & Religion

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Ethnicity & Religion Quiz

Jennifer Albrecht

ETH125

12/6/12

Thomas Liddick, M.A.

Question 1

When an ethnic group moves into an area that is different than their own, the integration process is eased if they assimilate between their culture and the new or dominant ethnicity’s culture. Each group must integrate pluralism to ensure that there is mutual respect for each to prevent any hostility that results from prejudices. According to Marcus Hansen’s principle of third generation interest, it was an early exception to the assimilations approach to White ethnic groups. Simply stated, Hansen maintained that in the third generation – the grandchildren of the original immigrants – ethnic interest and awareness would actually [Cliché: "actual" and "actually" are weak words whose meaning is nothing more than "in point of fact." They are often used as intensifiers but usually can be deleted with no change in meaning ] increase. (Schaefer 2012 [Place comma after author name] ) A first generation immigrant may have to deal with the hostilities and discrimination of [A compound including a comparative or superlative adjective is not hyphenated] moving into another country. The second generation, or their children, would have been born into the new country and easily assimilated to the new ways without dealing with the trials of learning a new culture. It is within the third generation,...