According to the Noel hypothesis, if two groups came together and the contact situation featured ethnocentrism, competition between groups, and a differential in power, the result of the contact would be______.
A. assimilation
B. some system of inequality between the groups
C. some conflict followed by cultural pluralism
D. integration without acculturation
Answer: B
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