What Is the Relationship Between Maintenance and Segregation

question 62

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between maintenance and segregation?

• A) Members of a subculture who have been in a larger culture for a long period of time maintain their alliance to the new culture by isolating themselves (segregation) from new immigrants.
• B) New immigrants begin to assimilate into a new culture. They also attempt to maintain their old cultural background by segregating themselves by living and shopping in physically separated areas from the main culture.
• C) People who belong to the dominant culture attempt to maintain their cultural superiority by isolating the subcultural values of new immigrants by physically segregating members of new subcultures into separate groups.
• D) The relationship is subtle. There is constant battle between new immigrants attempting to maintain their new identity and language and the dominant culture that is applying pressure to segregate new immigrants, thus separating them from the new culture.
• E) Really the only relationship between them between them is that they both occur after a person has assimilated into a culture.