What was the repatriation campaign? What was the result?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Students should discuss that the federal government instituted a repatriation campaign aimed specifically at deporting illegal Mexican immigrants. In many places, repatriation was pursued with great zeal, and the campaign intimidated many legal immigrants and native-born Mexican Americans into moving to Mexico. The result was that the Mexican American population of the U.S. declined by an estimated 40% during the 1930s.
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Bob is an elderly man who has no family. He can't afford to move out of the city. He represents the __________
A) mentally ill B) trapped C) downtrodden D) disheveled
In a chi-square test for independence, the null hypothesis is that:
A) the two population variances are independent B) the two variables are independent in the population C) the means of the populations are not equal D) the means of the populations are equal
A restaurant owner in the 1950s does not feel negatively toward African Americans but refuses to serve them in his restaurant because he fears that doing so would offend customers. According to Robert Merton's typology, the restaurant owner is a(n) _____
a. unprejudiced discriminator b. prejudiced nondiscriminator c. prejudiced discriminator d. unprejudiced nondiscriminator
Social scientists claim that it is not easy to identify a core culture in the United States. Why is this so?
What will be an ideal response?