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Holli, Melvin G. – Ethnicity, 1981
Describes the fervent political and cultural nationalism of German Americans in Chicago during World War I. Discusses how this nationalism, combined with ethnic conflict between Germans and Slavs, helped to sway public opinion against Chicago's German community. (GC)
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Ethnic Relations, Ethnicity, Immigrants
Thompson, William E. – Ethnicity, 1981
Focuses on ways that an Oklahoma Amish community creates, defines, maintains, and manipulates various symbols in an effort to deal with five problems that threaten the survival of Amish life: disenchanted youth, inroads of modernity, tourism, vanishing farm land, and governmental intervention. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Amish, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Cultural Isolation
