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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED200685 AUTHOR: Kuropas, Myron B.
TITLE: Intergovernmental Relations and Ethnicity.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 17 p.; Not available separately; see UD 021 324.
Paper
presented at a consulatation sponsored by the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights (Chicago, IL, December 3, 1979).
ABSTRACT: Three conceptual ideologies--Anglo conformity,
the melting pot, and cultural pluralism--have competed in
American thinking to explain the absorption of immigrants
into American society. Federal policy has reflected public
opinion, as exemplified by the immigrant exclusion acts of
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
tolerance of ethnic and cultural discrimination through the
1950s, and by a 1960s public policy shift toward programs
designed to assimilate ethnic groups through greater
economic and educational opportunities, improved housing,
and better social services. At the same time, a new
pluralist ideology was being formed, dedicated to the
maintenance of cultural diversity. The 1970s, however,
never lived up to pluralist expectations and ethnic
discrimination is perpetuated to this day by bureaucratic
indifference. A model for pluralistic decision making in
the Federal government, developed by the Office of Public
Liaison in 1976, has begun to address issues important to
America's ethnic groups. One such issue included designing
the 1980 Census in such a way as to demonstrate the true
extent of cultural pluralism today. The acceptance of a
pluralist ideal may mean a reevaluation of: (1) the use of
the term "minority"; (2) government recruitment policies
and decision making models; (3) decentralization of the
Federal bureaucracy; and (4) public policy development
regarding the family, the
neighborhood, and the church. (Author/GC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Bureaucracy-; Census-Figures; Ethnic
Groups; Government-Role; Immigrants-; Majority-Attitudes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Cultural-Differences;
*Cultural-Pluralism; *Ethnic-Bias; *Federal-Government;
*Public-Policy
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