Canada mosaic 加拿大马赛克文化

1、speaker:陈琴,Members:郭娟娟、刁黎黎、汪丽、冉霞、黄慧,The Canadian Mosaic,.Brief Introduction of Mosaic .The First Canadians .The Settlers .French Canadians .The Story of a Canadian,About Mosaic (muzeiik ),is a kind of material decorating buildings Used in dealing with videos, films or images when there are some sens

2、itive scenes many pieces put together,Contrast,USA: “melting pot” Throw off their old customs, languages and traditions and turn to “American” Canada: “mosaic” 1.Different cultures are equal 2.Overlap not overwhelm 3.A multicultural society within a bilingual framework,The First Canadians,The first

3、nations: native Canadians “first” because they are the original inhabitants of the country “nations” because there is not one single group or culture but there are many nations which have different languages, customs and beliefs,Two other special groups the Inuitnjut 因纽特人（北美的爱斯基摩人） the Metismeiti: n

4、. 混血儿，有八分之一黑人血统的混血儿，,Life Style of the First Nations,The Inuit,Living circumstances: the far north of Canada （harsh, arctic climate) Life style: hunting seals, whales, caribou and polar bears,The metis,How: emerged when French fur traders married Indian women Appearance: their children inherited cha

5、racteristics from both their European and aboriginal backgrounds Life style：fur trade,The situation of original people,In the past：were vital to the fur trade played a huge role in Canadas economic development treaded badly by their white Europeans At present: still poor be gradually accepted and gi

6、ven more rights,The settlers,Canada is a nation of immigrants Its immigration policies have largely been determined by economic conditions,From the 1890s through the 1920s farmers and miners from central and eastern Europe during the Great Depression of the 1930s,its immigration market was closed to

7、 virtually everyone but Britons and Americans recent years, the government has encouraged Asian immigration, offering passports to those with capital and entrepreneurial skills,Immigration policies,Along with the purely economic concerns that have informed immigration policy make Canada look hardhea

8、ded rather than humanitarian Due to changes in immigration regulations and practices, the Canadian immigration record is significantly less racist than it used to be,French Canadians,French-speaking province of Quebec has thought that its linguistic and cultural heritage is threatened by remaining in a country that is mainly English-speaking The government tries to keep French culture by offe