- Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:03 am
#103725
Hi TootyFrooty,
Question 22 asks how The League of United Latin American Citizens differed from the Congress of Spanish-Speaking People.
This is a Must Be True question that can (and should) be answered directly by finding this discussed in the passage. (If you need to quickly find where these groups appear in the passage, a quick word search for "League" or "Citizens" will quickly take you to lines 18-26, where they are discussed.)
The relevant sentence starting in line 18 states "Groups such as the League of United Latin American Citizens, an organization that encouraged Mexican Americans to pursue a civil rights strategy of assimilation into the United Sates political and cultural mainstream, were often diametrically opposed to organizations such as the Congress of Spanish-Speaking People, a coalition group that advocated bilingual education and equal rights for resident aliens in the United States."
In other words, the League of United Latin American Citizens advocated a strategy of assimilating (or blending into) the mainstream US culture. Since they were diametrically opposed to the Congress of Spanish-Speaking People, this second group did not advocate this strategy. Instead, they advocated an opposite strategy of not assimilating and instead keeping their original Mexican or Latin American culture. The fact that they advocated for bilingual education is an example of not assimilating because assimilating would be adopting the "mainstream" US language of English.
Since the question is asking how the League group differed from the Congress group, your prephrase to this question should be something like they "advocated assimilating into mainstream US culture."
Only Answer E matches this prephrase. "Adopting" in this answer is just another word for "assimilating."
None of the other answers are discussed in the passage.
