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1、Module5EthnicCulturePartTwoTeachingResources第二部分教学资源Section1BackgroundReadingsforModule5EthnicCulture1.TheJinuoEthnicGroup:TheJinuoEthnicGroupismadeupofaround18,000peoplewholiveintheJinghongareaofYunnan.TheirlanguageisaChinese-Tibetanlanguagewithnowrittenscript,buttheymostlyspeakChinesetoday.Theyli
2、vebyfarming,andfishing,andtheygrowmainlyrice,maizeandtea.Riceandmaize,alongwithbeans,aretheirstaplefoods;theyeatthreemealsaday,withlunchbeingtakenontheirfarmland.Theyliveinlargehousesmadeofbambooonmountainslopes.About20or30familiesliveontheupperfloorofthesamehouse,keepingtheiranimalsonthegroundfloo
3、r.Thewomenwearcolorfuljacketsandshortblackskirts,whilethemenwearashortwhitejacketandwhiteorbluetrousers.Theyareknownasgoodsingersanddancers,andthedrumisaveryimportantinstrumentforthem.InDecembertheyhaveaspecialSun-drumDance,whenolderpeopleplayaspecialdrumandothersdancearounddrum.2.EthnicMinoritiesi
4、ntheUK:ImmigrationfromcountrieswhichwereformerBritishcoloniesmeansthattherearemanyotherethnicgroupsintheUK.Thesearethefiguresfromthe2001censsus(published2003).TotalUKpopulation:58,789,194.Ethnicgroups:White:92.1%,Mixed:1.2%,Asian/AsianBritish:4.0%,Black/BlackBritish:1.8%,Chinese:0.4%,other:0.6%.3.N
5、axi:Withapopulationofabout278009(asof 1990),theNaxiethnicgroupmainlyliveinconcentratedcommunitiesintheNaxiAutonomousCountyofLijiangintheYunnanProvince,andtherestarescatteredthroughouttheneighboringcountiesinYunnanProvince,aswellasYanyuan,YanbianandMulicountiesinSichuanProvince.Thereisalsoasmallnumb
6、erlivingintheMangkangCountyintheTibetAutonomousRegion. TheNaxiethnic minorityhasitsownlanguagewhichbelongstotheYibranchofTibeto-BurmanAustronesianoftheChinese-TibetanPhylum.TheancientNaxipeoplecreatedpictographiccharacterscalledthe“Dongba”scriptandasyllabicwritingknownasthe“Geba”script.However,
7、theyweredifficulttomaster,andin1957thegovernmenthelpedtheNaxidesignanalphabeticscript.DuetoclosecontactwiththeHanpeopleoverthepastseveralhundredyears,theNaxipeoplealsousetheoralandwrittenChinesetocommunicat
