英国简介英美文化概况用.ppt

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(410871): 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 joining together the various parts of the British Isles under English rule.,England,Physically the largest of the four nations; by far the largest population Cultural and economic dominance,London,dominant in all sorts of way The seat of government; Cultural center Business center Financial center,Buckingham Palace,Trafalgar Square,Westminster,London Tower,Scotland,The most confident of its own identity The second largest of the four nations, both in population and in geographical area The Highlands in the north and the Southern Uplands The largest city is Glasgow, the capital city is Edinburgh,In 1707, by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments, Scotland joined the Union. Then followed two rebellions in 1715 and 1745,kilt,Bagpipes,Bagpipes,Wales,The capital is Cardiff This southern area was an important element in Britains 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 fr