Pedro is a boy living in a small Mexican village. Every day he rises early, for he must walk the two miles to his school. He has breakfast of beans and bread made from ground corn, leaves the house and begins his trek. He likes the walk for he can wave to his papa toiling daily in the cornfields that provide the food and income for the family
When Pedro comes home from school he often plays soccer with his friends in the village, and after dinner his mother usually plays songs on a guitar while papa sings.
The activities Pedro is involved in, such as playing soccer and listening to his mother and father play and sing best illustrate which of the following?
a. His culture
b. His ethnicity
c. Stereotype threat
d. Accommodation without assimilation
a
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