Your textbook discusses various cultural models in terms of immigration, such as assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. What model is used today?
Use the library and your course materials to research these models. Your analysis should include a response to the following:
- Discuss the assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism models, and include their historical timelines.
- How is it that certain groups in the United States never given the opportunity to "assimilate"? Include the following groups in your analysis: Hispanics, African-Americans and others of African descent, Native-Americans, and Asian-Americans.
- What model is used today?
- Why is the current model significant in terms of access and privilege?
1000 word minimum and 1200 word maximum