Question

A young person from southern california has four german grandparents. she lived in los angeles all her life before accepting a job in milwaukee. she has never really thought about her german heritage, but in milwaukee she discovers many other people with similar ancestries and starts using her ethnicity as a way to develop social and professional relationships. what is this an example of

Answer 1

The answer is situational ethnicity. This is an ethnic individuality that can be either showed or hidden contingent on its practicality in a given situation. In other words, members of many groups have a way to have the fertility of an ethnic identity, deprived of alienation from the typical society.