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听力-chapter7
Unit Three American Trademarks
Chapter 7 Multiculturalism
PRELISTENING
B.Vocabulary and Key Concepts
1. I understand why a foreigner might react skeptically to U. S. culture, especially if the person comes from a more ethnically and racially homogeneous society.
2. It seems naive or even perverse to deny the existence of a culture that has such great impact on other cultures, for better or worse. 3. A melting pot, literally a pot in which metals like aluminum and copper are melted in order to blend them, is the traditional metaphor for the way the different groups of immigrants came together in the United States.
4. Some people feel that the monoculturalist view of many nationalities blending together into an alloy of all the parts in it is a myth.
5. Opponents point out that many groups have at times been excluded from participating in U.S.society through segregation and discrimination.
6. U. S. society probably did not assimilate new cultural input until the new immigrants were viewed with less prejudice.
7. The metaphor the multiculturalists use is the patchwork quilt, a mosaic of separate, autonomous subcultures. 8. Intermarriage and the adoption of children of another race make a difference in how people in a family look at themselves.
9. The point here is that the ethnically and racially pure individuals implied by the multiculturalist view are more the.exception than the rule.
10. We inherit some of our culture from our families and absorb some of our culture unconsciously.
11. If assimilation does not take place in the first generation, it most certainly does by the second or third.
12. Monoculturalists fear a fragmentation, or even destmction, of U. S. culture, whereas proponents of the pluralistic view disagree.
13. It would be wrong to assume that the dominant culture we’ve been speaking about reflects the culture of only one group.
14. Opponents of the pluralistic view
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