MURGUIA: THREE MODELS OF ASSIMILATION

Question 1

(1) Anglo Conformity

Answer 1

A broad term used to cover a variety of viewpoints about assimilation and immigration. They all assume the desirability of maintaining English institutions (as modified by the American Revolution), the English language, and English oriented cultural patterns as dominant and standard in American life. By the third generation, the descendants of the newcomers are almost entirely American and often lack interest in or even knowledge of ther ancestor’s origins.

Question 2

Forced Assimilation (Anglo Conformity)

Answer 2

individuals are given rewards or punishments for their level of assimilation.

Question 3

Voluntary Assimilation (Anglo Conformity)

Answer 3

individuals choose assimilation because they see it as a way of advancement.

Question 4

Americanization (Anglo Conformity)

Answer 4

We have room for but one language in the country, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American naturality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house.

Question 5

(2) The Melting Pot

Answer 5

the blending of different races and cultivated into the American society. The melting pot model suggests that America is an immigrant’s nation. Immigration is viewed positively! Was it not possible, then, to think of the evolving American society not as a slightly modified England but rather as a totally new blend, culturally and biologically, in which the stocks and folkways of Europe were indiscriminately mixed into the political plot of the emerging nation and fused by the fires of American.

Question 6

(3) Cultural Pluralism or Multiculturalism

Answer 6

probably all the non-English immigrants who came to American shores in any significant number from colonial times onward, settling either in the forbidding wilderness, lonely prairie or in some accessible urban slum created ethnic enclaves and looked forward to the presentation of at least some of their natural culturally patterns.

Question 7

Multiculturalism: Ethnic enclave

Answer 7

a neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area. East Los Angeles, CA 97% Hispanics. Ethnic enclaves enable those immigrants with little to begin in a better position.

Question 8

Ethnic enclave continued

Answer 8

creates its own business enterprises, thus speeding the economic progress of the group. Ethnic and racial minorities can make more rapid initial economic progress when they create an enclave economy. The majority is willing at least in some circumstances to adopt measures that assure the survival of a minority group.

Question 9

Retentionists

Answer 9

are more concerned with the survival of the ethnic community than of the ethnic culture.

Question 10

(Alba): Two ways of looking at multiculturalism

Answer 10

Cosmopolitan (benefits of ethnic and cultural blending and Pluralism (only concerned with survival of cultures and loyalty of group members.