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Racial problem

1.How did people from so many different countries create the “American culture” in the United States?

Through aimilation: They have been made a part of a common cultural life with commonly shared values.2.What group had the strongest influence on shaping the dominant American culture?

English-speaking, Western European, Protestant and middle cla.3.What is “political boes”? How does the author think of their help to the new immigrants?

Boes that saw to many of the practical needs of the immigrants and were more accepting of the different homeland traditions.In exchange for their help, the political boes expected the immigrants to keep them in power by voting for them in elections.On one hand, they seemed to be destroying such basic American values as self-reliance and competition.On the other hand, they helped to aimilate large numbers of new immigrants and c their children into the larger American culture.3.Why do African Americans aimilate to American culture more difficultly than any other groups?

African-Americans were brought to the United States against their will to be sold as slaves.4.Why was slavery requested to be abolished in U.S?

Because slavery was seen as an injustice to African-Americans and as a threat to the American basic beliefs of freedom and equality.5.What do you know about the Civil Rights Movement? What is the difference between King’s goal and Malcolm X’s?

King: to bring about greater aimilation of black people into the larger American culture through non-violent protests, wanted greater equality of opportunity and “Freedom now” for his people, two major civil rights laws: removed racial segregation from public facilities in the South and removed the barriers that had prevented black people from voting in that region.Malcolm X’s: urged a rejection of basic American values and complete separation of blacks from the white culture.6.Do you think it better for the black to be aimilated or separated? Why?

Open.7.The writer describes US as a “mosaic”? How does he explain it？

If one looks closely at the nation, the individuals of different colors and ethnic groups are still distinct and recognizable, but together they create a picture that is uniquely American.8.The American dominate culture is white，English-speaking, protestant and middle cla.How would you describe the dominate culture in China or Guangzhou？

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