大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit 4 B

[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.
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