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1、2006年Text1①Inspiteof“endlesstalkofdifference,”Americansocietyisanamazingmachineforhomogenizingpeople.②Thereis“thedemocratizinguniformityofdressanddiscourse,andthecasualnessandabsenceofdeference”characteristicofpopularculture.③Peopleareabsorbedinto“acultureofconsumption”launchedbythe19thcenturydep
2、artmentstoresthatoffered“vastarraysofgoodsinanelegantatmosphere.④Insteadofintimateshopscateringtoaknowledgeableelite”thesewerestores“anyonecouldenter,regardlessofclassorbackground.⑤Thisturnedshoppingintoapublicanddemocraticact.”⑥Themassmedia,advertisingandsportsareotherforcesforhomogenization.①Im
3、migrantsarequicklyfittingintothiscommonculture,whichmaynotbealtogetherelevatingbutishardlypoisonous.②WritingfortheNationalImmigrationForum,GregoryRodriguezreportsthattoday'simmigrationisneitheratunprecedentedlevelsnorresistanttoassimilation.③In1998immigrantswere9.8percentofthepopulation;in1900,13
4、.6percent.④Inthe10yearspriorto1990,3.1immigrantsarrivedforevery1,000residents;inthe10yearspriorto1890,9.2forevery1,000.⑤Now,considerthreeindicesofassimilation—language,homeownershipandintermarriage.①The1990Censusrevealedthat“amajorityofimmigrantsfromeachofthefifteenmostcommoncountriesoforiginspok
5、eEnglish‘well’or‘verywell’aftertenyearsofresidence.”②ThechildrenofimmigrantstendtobebilingualandproficientinEnglish.③“Bythethirdgeneration,theoriginallanguageislostinthemajorityofimmigrantfamilies.”④HencethedescriptionofAmericaasa“graveyard”forlanguages.⑤By1996foreign-bornimmigrantswhohadarrivedb
6、efore1970hadahomeownershiprateof75.6percent,higherthanthe69.8percentrateamongnative-bornAmericans.①Foreign-bornAsiansandHispanics“havehigherratesofintermarriagethandoU.S.-bornwhitesandblacks.”②Bythethirdgeneration,onethirdofHispanicwomenaremarriedtonon-Hispanics,and41percentofAsian-Americanwomena
7、remarriedtonon-Asians.①RodrigueznotesthatchildreninremotevillagesaroundtheworldarefansofsuperstarslikeArnoldSchwarzeneggerandGarthBrooks,yet“someAmericansfearthatimmigrantlivingwithintheUnitedStatesremainsomehowimmunet
