Acculturation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Interpretation & Summary

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Ethnic Competition

What percentage of respondents said that they speak a language other than English at home? Are responses consistent across the different immigrant groups?

What percentage of respondents watches newscasts in Arabic? Are there large differences between the groups?

Which group of immigrants was the most likely to say that it's very important to visit their country of origin frequently? Which group was the least likely to think so?

How important is it for immigrants in the sample to speak Arabic? Are there large differences between the groups? Does the importance of marrying someone of Arab background diminish the longer people live in the US?

Assimilation

What percentage of recent immigrants does not speak English well or at all? What percentage of those who have lived here the longest falls in that category?

Is there much difference in the level of pride about being American in the different groups of immigrants? Do you find the results surprising?

What percentage of recent immigrants reported feeling at home in the US? What percentage of those who have been here the longest felt the same way?

Of which group was the largest percentage registered to vote? Between which two groups are the differences in voter registration the greatest?

Is acculturation corrosive of political trust? Does confidence in the American government increase or decrease the longer people live in the US?

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