According to Mary Waters in "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" White ethnics fail to recognize:

a. the difference between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforcedand imposed racial identity
b. the similarity between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced andimposed racial identity.
c. that some ethnicities are more important than others.
d. that all ethnicities are merely symbolic in today's worlds.


A

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