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Race and ethnicity ... conflict theorists focus on how the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations divides groups.

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71Race and Ethnicityassimilation (developing a sense of national identity, e.g., identifying as an American, rather than as an Asian American), attitude receptional assimilation (absence of prejudiced thoughts among dominant and minority group members), behavioral receptional assimilation (absence of discrimination, e.g., lower wages for minorities would not exist), and finally civic assimila-tion (absence of value and power conflicts).Assimilation is said to allow a society to maintain its equilibrium (a goal of the functional-ist perspective) if all members of society, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, adopt one dominant culture. This is often characterized as a voluntary process. Critics argue that this perspective assumes that social integration is a shared goal and that members of the minority group are willing to assume the dominant group’s identity and culture, assuming that the dominant culture is the one and only preferred culture (Myers 2005). The perspective als...

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