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1、Module5EthnicCulture-Section1BackgroundReadings素材PartTwoTeachingResources第二部分教学资源Section1BackgroundReadingsforModule5EthnicCulture1.TheJinuoEthnicGroup:TheJinuoEthnicGroupismadeupofaround18,000peoplewholiveintheJinghongareaofYunnan.TheirlanguageisaChin
2、ese-Tibetanlanguagewithnowrittenscript,buttheymostlyspeakChinesetoday.Theylivebyfarming,andfishing,andtheygrowmainlyrice,maizeandtea.Riceandmaize,alongwithbeans,aretheirstaplefoods;theyeatthreemealsaday,withlunchbeingtakenontheirfarmland.Theyliveinlarg
3、ehousesmadeofbambooonmountainslopes.About20or30familiesliveontheupperfloorofthesamehouse,keepingtheiranimalsonthegroundfloor.Thewomenwearcolorfuljacketsandshortblackskirts,whilethemenwearashortwhitejacketandwhiteorbluetrousers.Theyareknownasgoodsingers
4、anddancers,andthedrumisaveryimportantinstrumentforthem.InDecembertheyhaveaspecialSun-drumDance,whenolderpeopleplayaspecialdrumandothersdancearounddrum.2.EthnicMinoritiesintheUK:ImmigrationfromcountrieswhichwereformerBritishcoloniesmeansthattherearemany
5、otherethnicgroupsintheUK.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.Naxi:Withapopulationofabout278009(as
6、of 1990),theNaxiethnicgroupmainlyliveinconcentratedcommunitiesintheNaxiAutonomousCountyofLijiangintheYunnanProvince,andtherestarescatteredthroughouttheneighboringcountiesinYunnanProvince,aswellasYanyuan,YanbianandMulicountiesinSichuanProvince.Thereisal
7、soasmallnumberlivingintheMangkangCountyintheTibetAutonomousRegion. TheNaxiethnic minorityhasitsownlanguagewhichbelongstotheYibranchofTibeto-BurmanAustronesianoftheChinese-TibetanPhylum.TheancientNaxipeoplecreatedpictographiccharacterscalledthe“Dong
8、ba”scriptandasyllabicwritingknownasthe“Geba”script.However,theyweredifficulttomaster,andin1957thegovernmenthelpedtheNaxidesignanalphabeticscript.DuetoclosecontactwiththeHanpeopleoverthepastseveralhundredyears,theNaxipeoplealsousetheoral
