Zaid belongs to the Arab Muslim community and is a third generation immigrant to the United States. He speaks very little Arabic and has a wife belonging to a different ethnic and religious community. Some Arab Muslims in his community say that Zaid is not a true Arab or Muslim. This attitude of the people of his community is an example of .

The correct answer is segmented assimilation

The theory of segmented assimilation has been a popular explanation for the diverse assimilation experiences between new waves of immigrants and their children. Although the theory has been interpreted in many different ways, we emphasize its implications for the important role of the social context: both the processes and the consequences of assimilation must depend on the local social context in which immigrants are incorporated. We derive empirically falsifiable hypotheses about the effects of interaction between the social context and assimilation on the well-being of immigrant children.

the answer is true .