The Vasquez family is a working-class immigrant family. Because of discrimination, they were able to find housing only in a neighborhood that is almost exclusively Latino. This pattern is referred to as

A. cultural amalgamation.
B. hypersegregation.
C. cultural accommodation.
D. cultural co-optation.


Answer: B

Sociology

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