加拿大 英文介绍分析.ppt

The Canadian Mosaic Vancouver is home to the second largest Chinese group in North-America, after San Francisco . * Mosaic n.马赛克，镶嵌图，拼花 The difference between the USA and the Canada: the USA: (melting pot ) receive the immigrants who throw off their old customs , languages and tradition in favor of becoming “American”. Canada: (mosaic )also a nation of immigrants , but they do not throw their old ways of life and they adapt themselves to the new environment . 1.Officially , Canada refers to itself as multicultural . This was an idea born during the debate on bilingualism and biculturalism in the 1960s . 2.Politicians noticed that one-third of Canadians are neither English nor French, so they invented the idea of multicultural society . 3. What is Canada : a multicultural , bilingual country where efforts are made to protect ,promote and celebrate the ways of the different kinds of people . The first Canadians “the First Nations “ : “first” because they are the original inhabitants of the country . “nations ” because there is no single group or culture . Inuit (Eskimo) : live in the far north , be faced with the harsh arctic climate . They live by hunting seals , whales , caribou and polar bears. Metis : emerged when French fur traders married Indian women . 1.Canada’s aboriginal people were important in the fur trade and played a huge role in Canada’s economic development . 2.But they were treated badly by the white Europeans . income , life expectant , infant morality , disease , suicide rate ……. Their situation is improving , but slowly . Canadian population grows because of the official immigration policy . Immigration policy depends on the labor market in Canada . Example : To settle the prairie provinces : welcome the farmers . To develop the mining industry : welcome the miners . To develop the railway : man