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43 2 Assimilation and PluralismFrom Immigrants to White EthnicsWe have room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language .. and we have room for but one loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, 1907 This chapter continues to look at the ways in which ethnic and racial groups in the United States relate to one another. Two concepts, Assimilation and Pluralism , are at the core of the discussion. Each includes a variety of possible group relations and pathways along which group relations might is a process in which formerly distinct and separate groups come to share a common culture and merge together socially.
and industrialize, ethnic and racial groups would gradually lose their importance. The boundaries between groups would eventually dissolve, and a more “rational” and unified society would …
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