Correct. The answer is b. Kallen believed that ethnicity remained important, even to groups that had been in the United States for a long time. One’s ethnic background, he posited, formed his or her inalienable selfhood and liberty, which a democracy was bound to protect. Kallen believed that a melting pot society would obscure individuals’ fundamental selves, make it impossible for them to pursue happiness, and preclude democracy. Only in a society that accepted and promoted cultural pluralism, he argued, was true democracy possible.
Incorrect. The answer is b. Kallen believed that ethnicity remained important, even to groups that had been in the United States for a long time. One’s ethnic background, he posited, formed his or her inalienable selfhood and liberty, which a democracy was bound to protect. Kallen believed that a melting pot society would obscure individuals’ fundamental selves, make it impossible for them to pursue happiness, and preclude democracy. Only in a society that accepted and promoted cultural pluralism, he argued, was true democracy possible.