Assimilation is
a. an effort by elites to define individuals as falling into different identity groups and to make such divisions politically relevant.
b. a government response to identity diversity that forces a minority group to abandon its cultural characteristics and take on those of the majority group.
c. a strategy of a minority group to gain acceptance by the dominant cultural group by adopting some of that group's behavioral norms.
d. a government response to identity diversity that involves a degree of cultural autonomy and extensive rights or privileges for members of a minority group.
e. a government response to identity diversity in which a minority receives territorial autonomy in exchange for not pursuing complete independence.
B
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