When deciding how to interact with a minority group, a country's dominant group generally adopts one of five policies. Some dominant groups adopt a policy of pluralism. They permit or even encourage cultural differences. Switzerland provides an outstanding example of successful pluralism; although the French, Italian, and German Swiss have retained their separate languages and other customs, they live peacefully together in a political and economic unit. Another common policy is assimilation. Assimilation is the attempt to "eliminate" the minority by absorbing it into the mainstream culture. In Brazil, for example, an ideology supports the intermarriage of its racial and ethnic groups and favors an eventual blending of its racial-ethnic groups into a "Brazilian stock." Segregation is another way dominant groups choose to react to the presence of minorities. Segregation is an attempt by the dominant group to keep a minority "in its place," that is, subservient and exploitable. When whites were in control of South Africa, they despised the blacks but found their presence necessary. So they enforced segregation rules to keep blacks from enjoying the same rights and privileges as the ruling class. Some dominant groups transfer the minority population from their country. This is what happened when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella drove the Jews and Moors out of Spain and when the U.S. government forced Japanese Americans into camps during World War II. Finally, some dominant groups embrace the horrific practice of genocide, or extermination. The most infamous example of genocide is the Holocaust, when the Nazis set up death camps in order to systematically exterminate millions of Jews.

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a. enumerations.
b. definitions.
c. an enumeration and definitions.