Provide characteristics of Native American families.
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Highly diverse group, over 500 different nations, although over half identify as coming from six nations. American Indian households often composed of extended families, including uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents. Sioux families: second set of parents selected for newborn babies; "total" family involved in child rearing, and support includes unrelated members of the Indian community. Native American grandparents show high levels of involvement in care of grandchildren. Report high levels of caregiving to their elderly relatives. Migration of families from reservations to urban areas has led to increased assimilation and acculturation, likely to evolve over a generation or two to resemble dominant culture.
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Once established in the United States the German immigrants
A) abandoned their homeland culture. B) abandoned their German language. C) retained their German language. D) retained their German currency.
The Immigration Act of 1924 resulted in a dramatic change in America's historic
A) closed-door policy. B) revolving-door policy. C) open-door policy. D) shut-tight door policy.
What evidence is there to support the notion that ethnic conflict threatens the geopolitics of the G8?
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The "founder of sociology" is: a. Max Weber. b. Karl Marx
c. Emile Durkheim. d. Auguste Comte.