By the End of the Nineteenth Century, How Did European

Multiple Choice

By the end of the nineteenth century, how did European and American nationalist and racial ideas compare to those of the rest of the world?

A) Westerners, because of immigration, became more comfortable with multiethnic societies, while people in other parts of the world were drawn more to define themselves in terms of racial and ethnic purity.
B) Westerners were increasingly concerned with protecting their national and racial purity, while discussions of identity in other parts of the world were part of the opposition to western domination.
C) Westerners became increasingly fascinated with their own racial identity and cultural past, while people in Africa and Asia maintained their own sense of racial identity but were drawn to western culture, which they felt was more modern.
D) Westerners rejected ethnic nationalism as unworkable in the modern world, but people in Africa and Asia clung to nationalism as a way to reject colonization.