文档介绍：名词解释
*the Hundred Years’ War
*the Wars of Roses
*the Bill of Rights (Britain)
*Elizabeth I
*Oliver Cromwell
*The Glorious/Bloodless Revolution of 1688(光荣革命)
*Constitutional monarchy
*Protestant Reformation
*Further Education
*the Emancipation
Proclamation
* The Puritans
* The New Deal
*Counterculture
Movement*The separation of
powers
*Charter School in USA
Chinese Vs. American
Culture and Life
中美文化观对比欣赏
What is an American?
What characteristics of a typical
American?
Chinese Vs. American Family
Chinese Vs. American Food
Chinese Vs. American Way of life
What is an American?
--America is a land of plural races and ethnicities, with a
multicultural context.
--Americans are proud to be Americans but each individual
will explain that he, personally, is not like the other
Americans. He is better. Americans are proud to be
different from each other, and from the world.
--There’s no such thing as a plain American. Every American
is a hyphenated-American. An American will say “I’m
Polish” or “I’m Italian” because his great-grandparents
were born in Poland or Italy.
Major Racial and Ethnic Groups
American-Indians 1 %
”Anglo-Saxon” Americans (WASPs) (45%)
Non-WASP Whites
African-Americans (Blacks) 13%
Hispanics (Spanish-speaking immigrants) 12%
Asians 4 %
82%
Asian Groups
Five Asian groups number 1 million or more people: Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese and Korean. Together, these 5 groups make up about 80% of the Asian population.
Chinese: the largest group making up nearly 24% of Asian Americans
How could a nation of such diversity melt together so many different humans?
Popular Metaphors for America
Melting pot
Salad bowl
The metaphor of “melting Pot” was created by the English man, Isreal Zangwills’ play “Melting pot”, which was first performed in Washington DC, 1908.
The mixture of various ingredients that keep their individual characteristics, e together by dynamic flavor.
Mosaic
This metaphor implies that immi