Scholars Have Argued That Immigrant Groups Like the Irish and Italians

question 42

Multiple Choice

Scholars have argued that immigrant groups like the Irish and Italians were initially considered a race apart from native-born Anglo-Saxon white Americans. However, over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Irish and Italian immigrants managed to become part of dominant white culture. This historical context reveals how different cultures are absorbed into a single mainstream culture, a process also known as:

• A) multiculturalism.
• B) ethnocentrism.
• C) apoliticism.
• D) assimilation.

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Definitions:

Superordinate Level

A high-level classification or grouping that is more abstract than its lower-level counterparts in hierarchical arrangements.

Nonanalytic Concept Formation

Cognitive processes that implicitly acquire knowledge of a complex structure during the memorization of examples.

Reber

Refers to psychologist Arthur Reber, known for his work on implicit learning and the cognitive unconscious, particularly how people can learn complex information without being aware of the learning process.

Semantic Priming

A phenomenon in which exposure to one word (e.g., nurse) facilitates the recognition of semantically related words (e.g., doctor).