Unit 4 The Multicultural Society.pptVIP

Unit 4 The Multicultural Society Text A America As A Collage Teaching procedure Lead-in of the new unit Background information Text organization New words study Text analysis of part 1 Assignments Lead-in multi- multicultural, multiracial multimedia, multinational, multiple choice collage college colleague What is “collage”?  Collage - A picture or design created by adhering such basically flat elements as newspaper, wallpaper, printed text and illustrations, photographs, cloth, string, etc., to a flat surface. Collage was originally a French word, derived from the word coller, meaning to paste. Background information Pluralism 多元主义 refers to the acceptance of many different groups in society or many different schools of thought in an intellectual or cultural discipline. plural a. 复数的 e.g plural form Multiculturalism: 多元文化主义 A nation of immigration: 移民国度 Successive waves of immigration: The first wave of settlement in the 17th century were predominantly English. They were later joined by Dutchmen, Germans, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenots (Protestants) and Spanish-Portuguese Jews. Then there were the Blacks, who were “involuntary immigrants” seized in Africa and chained and shipped to this land to be sold as slaves. The second wave: The 40 years before the civil war accelerated the pace of immigration. During this period, some 1.6 million Irish came to America, mostly as refugees from a terrible famine. The same period also saw the arrival of 1.5 million Germans, many to escape from political persecutions after the failure of revolutions. There were also many Scandinavians and Swiss people who settled in the new states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and converted many forests and soils into farms and prospering towns. The third wave: The real flood however, came from during the 7 decades after the civil war. Six times between 1905 and 1914 for example, yearly immigration exceeded one million. Roughly during the same period, almost