René and Jacques Were Discussing Their Grandparents Experience Growing Up

question 97

Multiple Choice

René and Jacques were discussing their grandparents experience growing up in Quebec City in the Great Depression. Both of their grandparents remembered very clearly that all the men who worked with them on the docks were French-speaking, and how they came to resent that, even though all the work was done in French, their bosses never bothered to learn to speak French. What do sociologists call this phenomenon?

• A) bilingualism
• B) ethnic stratification
• C) linguistic assimilation
• D) ethnic assimilation

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