It can be inferred from the passage that one of the characteristics of immigrant groups to the United States has traditionally been that, after immigration, relatively few members of the group A. became politically active in their new communities B. moved back and forth repeatedly between the United States and their former communities C. used their native languages in their new communities D. suffered discrimination in their new communities at the hands of the cultural majority E. sought assimilation into the dominant culture of the new communities they were entering