英国简介英美文化概况用.pptVIP

kilt Bagpipes Bagpipes Wales The capital is Cardiff This southern area was an important element in Britain’s industrial revolution, as it had rich coal deposits. It is very close to the most densely populated parts of central England. Wales has been dominated by England for longer than the other nations of the union. It also retains its own language, Welsh, a Celtic tongue completely different from English. In 1536, Wales was brought legally, administratively, and politically into the UK by an act of the British parliament. * * your name your name A Brief Introduction to the United Kingdom Week 1 Aug, 2011 The full name of the country: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland The UK includes 4 parts within the one nation-state The island of Great Britain is made of England, Scotland and Wales, and Northern Island, a province on the neighboring island of Ireland. General Picture of UK “a complicated country with a complicated name” imperial past “the empire on which the sun never sets” UK is no longer an imperial country The Commonwealth of Nations an organization through which the fifty or more countries which used to be a part of that empire and maintain links. Immigration: non-European ethnicity from some of those Commonwealth countries like India or Pakistan, and the countries of Caribbean. A member of the European Union; A member of the Group of Eight large developed economies (“G8”) 八国集团首脑会议 (G8 Summit)由西方七国首脑会议演变而来，与会八国也被称为八国集团。八国是指美国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、加拿大、日本和俄罗斯。 A multicultural society: Christians, Muslims. Britain history has been a history of invasions: Celtic (750B.C.) Roman Empire:( 55B.C.– 410) :England and Wales Germanic(410—871): the Angles ,the Jutes and the Saxon Raiders from Scandinavia, the ferocious Vikings Normans: from northern France, who were descendants of Vikings. The next few hundred years following the Norman invasion can be seen as a process of