首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two factors: social standing and the loss of
Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two factors: social standing and the loss of
admin
2012-01-05
43
问题
Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two factors: social standing and the loss of national culture. In general, excessive stress is placed on one factor or the other, depending on whether fine commentator is North American or Puerto Rica. Many American social scientists, such as Oscar Handlin, Joseph Fitzpatrick, and Oscar Lewis, consider Puerto Ricans as the most recent in a long line of ethnic entrants to occupy the lowest rung on the social ladder. Such a "socio-demographic" approach tends to regard assimilation as a benign process, taking for granted increased economic advantage and inevitable cultural integration, in a supposedly egalitarian context. However, this approach fails to take into account the colonial nature of the Puerto Rican case, with this group, unlike their European predecessors, coming from a nation politically subordinated to the United States. Even the "radical" critiques of this mainstream research model, such as the critique developed in Divided Society, attach the issue of ethnic assimilation too mechanically to factors of economic and social mobility, and are thus unable to illuminate the cultural subordination of Puerto Ricans as a colonial minority.
In contrasts, the "Colonialist" approach of island-based writers such as Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, Manuel Maldonado-Denis, and Lius Nieves-Falcon tends to view assimilation as the forced loss of national culture in an unequal contest with imposed foreign values. There is, of course, a strong tradition of culture accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers. The writings of Eugenio Fernandez Mendez clearly exemplify this tradition, and many supporters of Puerto Rico’s commonwealth status share the same universalizing orientation. But the Puerto Rican intellectuals who have written most about the assimilation process in the United States all advance cultural nationalist views, advocating the preservation of minority cultural distinctions and rejecting what they see as the subjugation of colonial nationalities.
This cultural and political emphasis is appropriate, but the colonialist thinkers misdirect it, overlooking the class relations at work in both Puerto Rican and North American history. They pose the clash of national cultures as an absolute polarity, with each culture understood as static and undifferentiated. Yet both the Puerto Rican and North American traditions have been subject to constant challenge from cultural forces within their own societies; forces that may move toward each other in ways that cannot be written off as mere "assimilation". Consider, for example, the indigenous and Afro-Caribbean traditions in Puerto Rican’ culture and how they influence and are influenced by other Caribbean cultures and Black cultures in the United States. The elements of Coercion and inequality, so central to cultural contact according to the colonialist framework, play no role in this kind of convergence of racially and ethnically different elements of the same class.
The Puerto Rican writers who have written most about assimilation do NOT ______.
选项
A、regard assimilation as benign
B、resist cultural integration
C、describe in detail the process of assimilation
D、take into account the colonial nature of the Puerto Rican case
答案
A
解析
从第二段最后一句话可以看出这些作家提出了文化民族主义观点,支持保护民族文化特点而且反对这样一种殖民国家的征服行为。因此,可以推出他们并不认为同化会产生有利的影响,即A为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Xjua777K
本试题收录于:
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
sovereignstates
IntheUnitedStates,andhereinAsia,intellectualpropertyaccountsforasignificantandgrowingsegmentofcommercialtrade
RustbeltStates
Corporatesocialresponsibility
Ifambitionistobewellregarded,therewardsofambition—wealth,distinction,controloverone’sdestiny—mustbedeemedworth
"TheLostGeneration"referstotheyoungpeople().
MemorandumofUnderstanding的译文是()。
IndigenousAustraliansbelievethatreconciliationisnecessarybutthegovernmentshould,mostimportantly,makeaformalapolo
Sheshouldbe______andnotmakeunreasonabledemands.
随机试题
治疗行痹的主方是
一名12岁儿童于口腔科就诊,家长要求行龋病的预防医生检查后,发现可试行窝沟封闭的情况是
A.血酸性磷酸酶升高B.血碱性磷酸酶升高C.血CEA升高D.血AFP升高E.血VCA-IgA抗体升高胃肠癌病人可出现
报表管理模块不可以与其他模块相连。()
企业营销的人口环境包括()等各项人口统计因素。
市场经济国家运用货币政策调节经济,其中心是()。
李惠个子比胡戈高;张凤元个子比邓元高;邓元个子比陈小曼矮;胡戈和陈小曼的身高相同。如果上述断定为真,以下哪项也一定为真?
微分方程y"-4y=e2x的通解为________.
窗体上有一个名称为CD1的通用对话框控件和由四个命令按钮组成的控件数组Command1,其下标从左到右分别为0、1、2、3,窗体外观如图所示。命令按钮的事件过程如下:PrivateSubCommand1_Click(IndexAsIntege
A、Injuries.B、Referees.C、Anowngoal.D、Aredcard.A男士说在第一场比赛中,两位明星球员因为伤痛而退场导致剩下的队员无法赶上对方球队而失败。
最新回复
(
0
)