Imagine that a new minority group, one with no ethnic or racial ties to any we have discussed in this text, is entering U.S. society. What factors would you expect to be especially important in shaping the contact period? Why? What advice would you give this group? What pathways into U.S. society or strategies for adaptation would you recommend? Of all the groups we have discussed in this course, which one would you recommend as a model to a new minority group? Why?