1. Ethnic groups share five main characteristics. One of them is “territoriality,” or the tendency to occupy a distinct geographic area (such as Little Italy or Little Havana) by choice and/or for self-protection.

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False

2. Native Americans are the most disadvantaged racial or ethnic group in the United States in terms of income, employment, housing, nutrition, and health. They also have high rates of alcoholism, and suicide.

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False

3. In the contact hypothesis, symbolic interactionists point out that contact between people from divergent groups should lead to favorable attitudes and behavior when certain factors such as having equal status and pursuing the same goals are present.

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False

4. African Americans were the only group to be subjected to slavery; when slavery was abolished, a class system was instituted to maintain economic and social inequality between whites and African Americans.

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False

5. Discriminatory actions vary in severity from the use of derogatory labels to violence against individuals and groups. The ultimate form of discrimination, genocide, occurs when people are considered to be unworthy to live because of their race or ethnicity.

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False

6. Biological (amalgamation) assimilation in the United States initially followed an “Anglo conformity” model; members of subordinate ethnic groups were expected to conform to the culture of the dominant white Anglo-Saxon population.

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False