Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с темой "COUNTRY PROFILE". Дедова С.А. - 15 стр.

       14 per cent of people in the other Black group chose not to answer       the 1960s, more and more people have fled the poverty and wars in Asia
the religion question, almost twice the average for England and Wales as a      and Latin America in the hope of finding a better life in the United States.
whole. Similar proportions of people in the Black Caribbean and Mixed                  All in all, the heritage of immigrants and immigration has brought
ethnic groups also gave no answer.                                              enormous benefits to America. German intellectuals who fled Germany
                                                                                after the failed revolutions: of 1830 and 1848, for example, brought with
       1) What is the current state of population in England and Wales?         them a liberal tradition that did much to change their newly adopted land.
       2) What are the main ethnic groups?                                      Again, a hundred years later, America was enriched by Jewish immigrants
       3) What religious groups you can come across in England and              who, seen by many as the «refuse» of the world at the time, have added
Wales?                                                                          their brilliance to American culture, education, and science. Many other
       4) Tell about ethnic and religious groups in Russia and Omsk re-         ethnic groups have, of course, also added their contributions to America's
gion. Mind the underlined word combinations.                                    well-being.

3. Read the text and formulate its main idea.                                           1) The United States was often described as a nation of immigrants
                                                                                and American society likened to «melting pot», a «salad bowl» and a
          CHANGING PATTERNS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY                                 «pizza». What do all the descriptions have in common and why, do you
                                                                                think, there exists more than one metaphor for American society?
       The face of America is constantly and very rapidly changing. These
                                                                                        2) How would you describe the stages and phases of assimilation or
changing patterns do affect, and have affected, what America is today and
                                                                                integration into a society?
how Americans view the rest of the world.
                                                                                        3) What are the possible ways of preserving one's national identity
       Between 1861 and 1960, the majority of immigrants came from
                                                                                in a foreign culture environment?
Europe. But during the past 25 years the share of immigrants has come
                                                                                        4) How has the pattern of immigration into the U.S. been changing
from Latin America and Asia.
                                                                                since the U.S. became an independent slate and why?
       What is very clear is that the so-called European heritage of America
                                                                                        5) Many people were and still are thinking of the U.S. as the Prom-
is undergoing a major change as more and more people from Latin Amer-
                                                                                ised Land. Do you think such attitude is justified?
ica and from Asian countries enter U.S. society. Growing number of
                                                                                        6) What strains does mass immigration bring about on a nation and
Americans will be able to say that they, or their parents or grandparents,
                                                                                what may the benefits resulting from it be?
came from these regions. As a consequence, the American view of the
world is more likely to be towards the south and west.
       Major changes in the pattern of immigration have been caused by
wars, revolutions, periods of starvation, persecution, religious intolerance,
and, in short, by any number of disasters which led people to believe that
America was a better place to be in. More than a million Irish, for instance,
emigrated to America between 1846 and 1851 in order to escape starvation
and disease in Ireland. During the same period, large numbers of other
Europeans fled political persecution. And in the 1870s another wave of
refugees left the political turmoil of eastern and southern Europe to seek
freedom and a future in America. The largest streams of European immi-
grants came between 1900 and 1920, that is, before, after, and during
World War I. At other times, for example, during the Depression and dur-
ing World War II, smaller numbers of immigrants came to the U.S. Since

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