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Culture Background |  Warm-up activity |  Outline |  Text |  Warm-up activity 1. The essays tells us a lot about two extremely different civilizations. Please make a comparison between the white Americans and Navajos from these three ways: living conditions; the way of life and religion. Living conditions: White Americans: live in highly developed cities and well-furnished houses with public service; there is comfort but an absence of love; have rich resources of all kinds; The Navajos: live on the reservation and in a hogan which is like a dungeon; there is no comfort but full of love; having nothing but sheep; The way of life: White Americans: they live a noisy life; achieving is important ; they are active, aggressive and competitive; when they are ill they go to a doctor for the treatment of body and mind. The Navajos: they live a quiet life ; being is important ; they are passive, peaceful and cooperative ; when they are ill, they invite a Hand Trembler and a Medicine Man to cure the person, bodily and spiritually. Religion: White Americans : believe in God The Navajos : respect nature 2. What’s the main idea of the text? And what does the author want to tell us in this article? The author of this essay, a white woman, describes her experience of living with the Navajos on their reservation. She endeavors to enter the cultural life of the tribe and explain the primary charateristics of the Navajos. The author is to show her appreciation for Navajo values and to arrive at her own conclusion, that is, “ My Truth” : on the vast Indian reservation, she finds the meaning of her own life --- happiness is based on communion with nature without the disturbance of the modern world. 3. In what ways is the Navajo culture different from that of the American whites? The Navajos put much emphasis on communion with nature. Their life is spiritually rich but materially poor. They have no intention of improving on life of their ancestors. The whites go to the other extreme. They are greedy for material wealth and become poor in spiritual life. 4. Could you explain the last paragraph? (Out in the vastness of land and sky, you can look out infinitely, into space, and somehow you can see so far that you begin to see --- inside of you. And there is your happiness.)(在广袤的天地中,你可以极目远望,凝视苍弯,你看得那么远,竟在不知不觉中开始看到——你的内心世界.那便是你的幸福所在。 Facing great nature, you want to become a small part of it what you see is the calmness before worldly temptation and the recovery of self-consciousness. In that way, you find your own happiness.

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