Until fairly recently, many people believed that ethnic and religious subcultures should learn and adopt the ways of the dominant group. Such people were advocating:
a. multiculturalism.
b. assimilation.
c. countercultures.
d. cultural diffusion.
Question 2
A counterculture is:
a. a group that has values, interests, beliefs, and lifestyles that are opposed to those of the larger society.
b. a group that shares the overall culture of mainstream society but maintains its own distinctive values, norms, and lifestyles.
c. a population that shares the same territory and is bound together by economic and political ties.
d. a group of people with similar physical characteristics.
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