During the last century, Guatemala’s Native American population has decreased from 75 percent to less than 50 percent of the total population. What was the primary cause of this?

a. Genocide
b. A policy of relocation
c. Passive assimilation
d. Massive immigration from Europe, which reduced the proportion of Native Americans in the overall population


ANSWER:
c

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