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1、学科网(ZXXK.COM)-学海泛舟系列资料上学科网，下精品资料！Module5EthnicCulturePartTwoTeachingResources第二部分教学资源Section1BackgroundReadingsforModule5EthnicCulture1.TheJinuoEthnicGroup:TheJinuoEthnicGroupismadeupofaround18,000peoplewholiveintheJinghongareaofYunnan.TheirlanguageisaChinese-Tibetanl
2、anguagewithnowrittenscript,buttheymostlyspeakChinesetoday.Theylivebyfarming,andfishing,andtheygrowmainlyrice,maizeandtea.Riceandmaize,alongwithbeans,aretheirstaplefoods;theyeatthreemealsaday,withlunchbeingtakenontheirfarmland.Theyliveinlargehousesmadeofbambooonmountainsl
3、opes.About20or30familiesliveontheupperfloorofthesamehouse,keepingtheiranimalsonthegroundfloor.Thewomenwearcolorfuljacketsandshortblackskirts,whilethemenwearashortwhitejacketandwhiteorbluetrousers.Theyareknownasgoodsingersanddancers,andthedrumisaveryimportantinstrumentfor
4、them.InDecembertheyhaveaspecialSun-drumDance,whenolderpeopleplayaspecialdrumandothersdancearounddrum.2.EthnicMinoritiesintheUK:ImmigrationfromcountrieswhichwereformerBritishcoloniesmeansthattherearemanyotherethnicgroupsintheUK.Thesearethefiguresfromthe2001censsus(publish
5、ed2003).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.Naxi:Withapopulationofabout278009(asof 1990),theNaxiethnicgroupmainlyliveinconcentratedcommunitiesintheNaxiAutonomousCountyo
6、fLijiangintheYunnanProvince,andtherestarescatteredthroughouttheneighboringcountiesinYunnanProvince,aswellasYanyuan,YanbianandMulicountiesinSichuanProvince.ThereisalsoasmallnumberlivingintheMangkangCountyintheTibetAutonomousRegion. TheNaxiethnic minorityhasitsownlangu
7、agewhichbelongstotheYibranchofTibeto-BurmanAustronesianoftheChinese-TibetanPhylum.TheancientNaxipeoplecreatedpictographiccharacterscalledthe“Dongba”scriptandasyllabicwritingknownasthe“Geba”script.However,theyweredifficulttomaster,andin1957thegovernmenthelpedtheNaxidesign
8、analphabeticscript.DuetoclosecontactwiththeHanpeopleoverthepastseveralhundredyears,theNaxipeoplealsouse
