Question

Researchers have proposed the term _____ for the tendency of recent immigrants to the United States to resist assimilation and cling to familiar practices that give meaning to life.

Answer 1

Researchers have proposed the term, ethnic conservatism since recent immigrants to the United States resist assimilation.

What is assimilation?

Assimilation is the social process that enables individuals or groups from a different ethnic heritage to be absorbed into the dominant culture of their new society where they have relocated.

Assimilation creates:

• Social mobility
• Economic opportunities
• Social and economic stability.

Thus, researchers have proposed the term, ethnic conservatism, for the tendency of recent immigrants to the United States to resist assimilation and cling to familiar practices that give meaning to life.

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