大學(xué)英語(yǔ)綜合教程第四冊(cè) 10

[00:00.00] contrary memorial dwell mysterious [00:03.60]反面的 紀(jì)念的 居住 神秘的 [00:07.21]live on shortly after lead to applaud [00:11.10]繼續(xù)生活 …后不久 導(dǎo)致 稱(chēng)贊 [00:14.99]blur entity presumably what of [00:18.38]變模糊 實(shí)體 可能 …怎么樣 [00:21.76]dwarf in exile originate derive [00:26.17]使顯得渺小 于流放中 起源于 獲得 [00:30.59]category misery ethic streak [00:39.94]America has drawn to its shores indiveduals from all over the world [00:45.53]This has produced a blending of different ways of life that many Americans find distrubing.Ishmael Reed [00:54.60]however,sees this mixing of customs as neither new nor a threat.On the contrary,it is typically American. [01:04.16]WHAT'S AMERICAN ABOUT AMERICA? by Ishmael Reed [01:11.71]An item from the New York Times,June23,1983: "At the annual Lower East Side Jewish Festival yesterday, [01:22.31]a Chinese woman atea pizza slice in front of Ty Thuan Duc's Vietnamese grocery store. [01:30.59]Beside her a Spanish-speaking family patronized a cart with two signs: 'Italian Ices' and 'Kosher by Rabbi Alper'" [01:42.14]On the day before Memorial Day,1983,a poet called me to des cribe a city he had just visited. [01:50.52]He said that one section included mosques,built by the Islamic people who dwelled there.Attending his reading, [02:00.08]he said,were large numbers of Hispanic people,40,000of whom lived in the same city. [02:07.87]He was not talking about a legendary city located in some mysterious region of the world.The city he'dvisited was Detroit [02:17.93]A few months bifore,as I was visiting Texas,I head the taped voice [02:24.35]used to guide passengers to their commections at the Dallas Airportannoucing items in both Spanish and English. [02:33.89](1)This trend is likely to continue;after all,for some southwestern states like Texas,where the largest minority [02:44.21]is now Mexican-American,Spanish was the first written language and the Spanish style lives on in the western way of life. [02:54.24]Shortly after my Texas trip,I sat in a campus auditorium at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee [03:03.25]as a Yale professor-whose original work on the influence of African cultures [03:10.17]upon those of the Americas has led to his ostracism from some intellectual circles [03:17.80]-walked up and down ,The aisle like an old-time Southern evangelist,dancing and drumming the top of the lectern, [03:26.50]illustrating his points before some Afro-American intellectuals and artists who cheered and applauded his prformance. [03:36.50]The professor was "white."After his lecture,he conversed with a group of Milwaukeeans- [03:44.47]all of whom spoke Yoruban,though only the professor had ever traveled to Africa. [03:51.78]One of the artists these told me that his paintings, [03:56.28]which included African and Afro-American mythological symbols and imagery,were hanging in the local McDonald's restaurant [04:07.22]The nest day I went to McDonald's and snapped pictures of smiling youngsyers eating hamburgers [04:14.88]below paintings that could grace the walls of any of the country's leading museums. [04:21.36]The manager of the local McDonald's said, "I don't know what you boys are doing, [04:27.78]but I like it,"as he commissioned the localpainters to exhibit in his restauant. [04:34.26]Such blurring of cultural styles occurs in everyday life in the United States to a greater extent than anyone can imagine. [04:44.21]Yet members of the nation's present educational and cultural elite still cling to the notion that the United States [04:53.83]belongs to some vaguely defined entity they refer to as "Western civilization,"by which they mean, [05:03.15]presumably, a civilization created by people of Europe,as if Europe can even be viewed as completely uninfluenced [05:13.29]by the rest of the world.Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,which includes Turkish marches,a part of Wistern civilization? [05:24.18]Or the late-nineteenth-and twentieth-century French paintins,whose creators were influence by Japanese art [05:33.11]And what of the cubists .through whom the onfluence of African art changed moder painting?Or the surrealists, [05:42.96]who were so impressed with the art of the Pacific Northwest Indians that,in their map of North America, [05:50.90]Alaska dwarfs the lower forty-eight states in size? [05:56.34]Are the Russians,who are often criticized for their adoption of "Western"ways by Tsarist dissidents in exile, [06:06.11]members of Western civlization?And what of the millions of Europeans who have black African and Asian ancestry, [06:16.06]black Africans having occupied several European countries for hundreds of years? [06:23.01]Or the Hungarians,who originated across the Urals in a place called Greater Hungary ? [06:29.80]Or the Irish,who came from the Iberian Peninsula? [06:35.10]Even the notion that North America is part of Western civilization because our "system of government" [06:43.93]is derived from Europe is being challenged by Native Americanhistorians who say that the founding fathers, [06:52.55]Benjamin Franklin especially,were actually influenced by the system of government [06:59.40]that had been adopted by the Iroquoes hundreds of years prior to the arrival of Europeans. [07:07.10](2)Western civilization,then,becomes another confusing category-like Third World,or Judeo-Christian culture [07:17.37]-as humanity attempts to impose its small-screen view of politica and cultural reality upon a complex would. [07:27.61](3)Our most publicized novelist recently said that Western civilization was the greatest achievement of mankind [07:37.30]-an attitude that flourishes on the street level as scribbles in public restrooms: "White Power," [07:45.97]"Niggers and Spics Suck."or "Hitler was a prophet."Where did such an attitude, [07:55.01]which has caused so muchmisery and depression in our national life,whichhas spolied even our noblest achievements [08:04.21]begin?An attiude that caused the confinement of Japanese-American citizans during World WarⅡ, [08:13.71]the persencution of Chicanos and Chinese Americans,the near-extermination of the Indians, [08:22.00]and the murder and Iynchings of thousands of Afro-Americans. [08:28.29]The Puritans of New England are idealized in our schoolbooks as the first Americans, "a hardy band" [08:37.67]whose discipline razed the forest and brought order to the New World(a term that annoys Native American historians) [08:47.54]Industrious,responsible,it was their "Yankee ingenuity"and practicality that created the work ethic. [08:57.36]The Puritans,however,had a mean streak.They hated the theater and banned Christmas. [09:05.20]They punished people in a cruel and inhuman manner.Thy killed children who disobeyed their parents. [09:14.11]They exterminated the Indians,who had taught them how to survive in a world unknown to them. [09:21.32]The Puritan legacy of hard work and meticulous accounting led to the establishment of a great industrial society, [09:31.40]but there was the other side-the strange and fearful attitudes of that society to ward those different from the elect. [09:41.17]The cultural attitudes of that early elect continue to be voiced in everydaylife in the United states; [09:49.58]the president of a destinguished university,writing a letter to the Times,belittling the study of African civilizations [09:59.64]the television network that promoted its show on the Vatican art with the boast [10:06.85]that this art represented "the finest achievements of the human spirit." [10:14.06]When I heard a schoolteacher warn the other night about the invasion of theAmerican deucational system by foreign curricula [10:24.12]I wanted to yell at the television set, "Lady,they're already here."I has alreadybegun because the world is here . [10:35.66]The world has been arriving at these shores for atleast 10,000years from European,Afria,and Asia. [10:45.25]In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,large numbers of Europeans arrived, [10:52.12]adding their cultures to those of the European, [10:56.61]African,and Asian settler who were already here, [11:01.94]and recently millions have been entering the country from South America and the Caribbean. [11:09.60]North America deserves a more exciting destiny than as a storeroom of "Western civilization." [11:18.53]We can become a place where the cultures of the world crisscross.This is possible because [11:26.92]the United States and Canada are rnique in the world:The word is here. [11:30.89]范疇 苦難 道德標(biāo)準(zhǔn) 個(gè)性特征

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