BlueVox
Bonjour, je suis en terminale scientifique et je passe vendredi prochain mon épreuve d'anglais pour le bac.
Pourriez vous me donner votre avis sur la notion spaces and exchanges ? Merci d'avance
I’m going to talk about the notion of spaces and exchanges. To begin with, I’d like to give a definition of the notion : an exchange is an deed of giving and receiving something else in return. It can also be a uninterrupted movement or circulation. There are different kinds of exchanges : economic, cultural, movement of people… A space is a geographical or symbolic area where all the exchanges take place.
To illustrate this notion, I have chosen to examine the people’s diversity in South Africa.
How the South Africa’s history enables to this country to be source of exchanges ?
To answer this question I will use 3 documents : Apartheid explained, a video of AJ+, the rainbow nation, a text, and the trailer of In my country, a movie of John Boorman.
The different inhabitants in the south africa’s history
The original inhabitants were the San Bushmen. There are only a few of these people remaining in S.A today (10000)
Then, the Black migrants from sub-Saharan Africa got to South Africa. They are today the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu which thrive here.
In 1652, the Dutch arrived and brought slaves from East Indies who became the “coloured people”.
In the late 17th century, small but influential french group escaping religious persecution reached S.A and were assimilated into the dutch population.
In the latter part of the 18th century, the British arrived here, and
Indians and chinese came with the development of mining and sugar cane farming.
So we can see that many population moved by their space to South Africa.
The difficulties of Apartheid
Apartheid is a African word that means separateness. It was a system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for 50 years. The goal was to protect the domination of the whites over non-whites.
On the beginning of the 20th century, the rights of native black south africans were sidelined. Nevertheless, Apartheid, set up by the National Party, not began before 1948.
Afrikaners believed that South Africa was their god-given homeland and they considered white race superior.
There were a hundred and forty-eight apartheid laws.
The most important was the obligation for blacks to carry ID permits at all times, the strict curfews, the use separation of public facilities for white and non-white, the ban of marriages between whites and other races.
People were classified into four racial categories : white, black, Indian and colored (people of mixed race). They were all separated into different residential areas and blacks were divided into ten homelands based on tribal groups. Homelands were overcrowded and it was so difficult to have a job. Wages were low and it was illegal to strike.
Apartheid was also economically motivated : a cheap workforce was needed particularly to work in the country's gold mines.
The end of apartheid and the reconciliation between Blacks and Whites.
The African National Congress (ANC) had to fight Apartheid to enable Blacks and Whites to be on equal footing. In 1991, all the Apartheid’s laws were abolished and in 1994, Nelson Mandela, one of the leader of ANC, was elected president of South Africa. In 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was created to investigate on the human rights abuses. Desmond Tutu was at the end of this commission. On the trailer of In my country, two points of vue are in contradiction. Anna Malan, a broadcaster and reporter afrikaners, was in favour of TRC because the traditional African justice is based on reconciliation and not revenge. Langston Whitfield, a African-American reporter was against TRC and he is wondering how there can be reconciliation if 99% of the country’s wealth is still in the hands of the white minority.
On this trailer, we can see all the efforts done by the government to make a new community composed of different races and cultures.
Conclusion
South Africa possess a wide diversity. There are indeed many populations with different origins like the San Bushmen, the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu, and people from nederland, France, Great Britain, Chinese and India. During Apartheid, Blacks fought against whites and they constituted a solid community. This somber period gave more strength to the population, including black peoples who had experienced this difficulty. Today, even if we saw on the trailer that some Blacks don’t want to forgive, the government want to unify all the races to make a country composed of many cultures. Little by little, the different ethnies gather and journalists talk about New South Africa. However, there is a gap between the 20 millions poors and the 8 millions of richs blacks. To maximize the exchanges between all the communities, the government must reduce the poverty to upgrade the social cohesion and be a fantastic rainbow nation.
marion.correia
Bonjour je suis en terminale S je souhaiterai avoir vos avis commentaires et corrections sur ma synthèse, les épreuves arrivant à grand pas je vous remercie d'avance pour toute correction.
I’m going to deal this notion of spaces and exchanges.. There are different sorts of exchanges like politic, commercial, economic o exchanges of information’s of migratory flux. Today, the space are becoming connected thanks at internet and the different world connexions with the mundialisation.
In class, we have talk about this notion thought the idea of the sport. The thematic of sport answer to this notion because sport is in deferent spaces. For example, the olympics games in Germany, Australia Japan.. The meeting in these places allow the exchanges.
I will ask the following question: What are the advantage and disadvantage of internationnal sport competitions ?
Firstly we will be interested in the positive side: it unifies the countries we will be interested in the positive side: it unifies the countries.
And then we will see the negative sides such as cheating
To illustrate the notion i have chosen 2 documents for the first part : Queen Elizabeth’sChristmas speech in 2010, the document of indian colony, and 2 documents fort he second part : Trapped on the track and the article of Jawad
Let me explain the reason why i have chosen ????
fidji45
bonsoir Marion
je veux bien corriger quelques erreurs sur le début de ta notion;
Voici ce que je te propose :
I’m going to deal this notion of Spaces and Exchanges.. There are different sorts of exchanges : they can be political, commercial, economic. News exchanges and immigration/emigration flows are also forms of exchanges . Today, space is a connected place thanks to new technological means like the internet.
In class, we have talked about the notion of Notion of Spaces and Exchanges though the idea of sport. The( thematic)non:les thématiques sont un terme réservé à la Lele ;toujours parler de notions. of sport illustrates perfectly the exchange of skills through competition amongst various countries.
Let us take for example, the Olympics games in Germany(what year , what context?) Australia or Japan (why ? explain )The meeting in these places allow the exchanges.(no not in Germany Under the Hitlerian regime when only Arians were supoosed to win)
I will try to answer the following question: What are the advantage and disadvantage of internationnal sport competitions ?
Firstly let's look at the positive side: it unifies the countries and its participants (do you have a text /document in relation with this)
And then we will see the negative sides such as cheating (or Olympics -like in Berlin-where the competition was twarted)
To illustrate this notion I Ihave chosen 2 documents : Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas speech in 2010, the document of (a/the?) Indian colony.(date,sources?)
Là tu développes tes idées
Let's knouw underline the negative side : cheating during a competition : Trapped on the track refernces /year /author)and the article by Jawad (complete name/year/sources)
Là tu développes de nouveau
Allez lance-toi ! ;)
marion.correia
Je viens de voir votre réponse
Merci beaucoup Fidji pour tous ces conseils je me lance dès demain
BlueVox
I’m going to talk about the notion of spaces and exchanges. To begin with, I’d like to give a definition of the notion : an exchange is an deed of giving and receiving something else in return. It can also be a uninterrupted movement or circulation. There are different kinds of exchanges : economic, cultural, movement of people… A space is a geographical or symbolic area where all the exchanges take place.
To illustrate this notion, I have chosen to examine the people’s diversity in South Africa.
How the South Africa’s history enables to this country to be source of exchanges ?
To answer this question I will use 3 documents : Apartheid explained, a video of AJ+, the rainbow nation, a text, and the trailer of In my country, a movie of John Boorman.
The different inhabitants in the south africa’s history
The original inhabitants were the San Bushmen. There are only a few of these people remaining in S.A today (10000)
Then, the Black migrants from sub-Saharan Africa got to South Africa. They are today the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu which thrive here.
In 1652, the Dutch arrived and brought slaves from East Indies who became the “coloured people”.
In the late 17th century, small but influential french group escaping religious persecution reached S.A and were assimilated into the dutch population.
In the latter part of the 18th century, the British arrived here, and
Indians and chinese came with the development of mining and sugar cane farming.
So we can see that many population moved by their space to South Africa.
The difficulties of Apartheid
Apartheid is a African word that means separateness. It was a system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for 50 years. The goal was to protect the domination of the whites over non-whites.
On the beginning of the 20th century, the rights of native black south africans were sidelined. Nevertheless, Apartheid, set up by the National Party, not began before 1948.
Afrikaners believed that South Africa was their god-given homeland and they considered white race superior.
There were a hundred and forty-eight apartheid laws.
The most important was the obligation for blacks to carry ID permits at all times, the strict curfews, the use separation of public facilities for white and non-white, the ban of marriages between whites and other races.
People were classified into four racial categories : white, black, Indian and colored (people of mixed race). They were all separated into different residential areas and blacks were divided into ten homelands based on tribal groups. Homelands were overcrowded and it was so difficult to have a job. Wages were low and it was illegal to strike.
Apartheid was also economically motivated : a cheap workforce was needed particularly to work in the country's gold mines.
The end of apartheid and the reconciliation between Blacks and Whites.
The African National Congress (ANC) had to fight Apartheid to enable Blacks and Whites to be on equal footing. In 1991, all the Apartheid’s laws were abolished and in 1994, Nelson Mandela, one of the leader of ANC, was elected president of South Africa. In 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was created to investigate on the human rights abuses. Desmond Tutu was at the end of this commission. On the trailer of In my country, two points of vue are in contradiction. Anna Malan, a broadcaster and reporter afrikaners, was in favour of TRC because the traditional African justice is based on reconciliation and not revenge. Langston Whitfield, a African-American reporter was against TRC and he is wondering how there can be reconciliation if 99% of the country’s wealth is still in the hands of the white minority.
On this trailer, we can see all the efforts done by the government to make a new community composed of different races and cultures.
Conclusion
South Africa possess a wide diversity. There are indeed many populations with different origins like the San Bushmen, the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu, and people from nederland, France, Great Britain, Chinese and India. During Apartheid, Blacks fought against whites and they constituted a solid community. This somber period gave more strength to the population, including black peoples who had experienced this difficulty. Today, even if we saw on the trailer that some Blacks don’t want to forgive, the government want to unify all the races to make a country composed of many cultures. Little by little, the different ethnies gather and journalists talk about New South Africa. However, there is a gap between the 20 millions poors and the 8 millions of richs blacks. To maximize the exchanges between all the communities, the government must reduce the poverty to upgrade the social cohesion and be a fantastic rainbow nation.
fidji45
Bonjour BlueVox
Je suis contente que tout se passe au mieux; On croise les doigts pour demain! En attendant ,quelques suggestions:
Oral d'anglais - Espaces et échanges
I’m going to talk about the notion of spaces and exchanges. To begin with, I’d like to give a definition of the notion : an exchange is an deed (le mot "deed" est à enlever: il veut en effet dire acte/action mais est connoté action héroïque. Vous l'employez souvent , enlevez le et mettez : action )of giving and receiving something else in return.(( It can be a uninterrupted movement or circulation(??) Ceci ne définit pas un échange qui peut être unique ..je ne le garderais pas . ))There are different kinds of exchanges : economic, cultural, movement of people… A space is a geographical or symbolic area where all the exchanges take place.
I have chosen to try and answer the question:
How has migration through history enabled South Africa to become a Rainbow nation (Mandela's words) both through Space (people moving to South Africa) and Exchanges (people being forced there)
? To answer this question I will use 3 documents : Apartheid explained, a video of AJ+, the rainbow nation, a text, and the trailer of In my country, a movie of John Boorman.(make sure you come with the script ;it's better)
The original inhabitants were the San Bushmen. There are nowadays only a few of these people remaining in S.A today (10000)
Then, the Black migrants from sub-Saharan Africa got to South Africa. They are today the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu (tribes?)who thrive there.
In 1652, the Dutch arrived and brought slaves from the East Indies:these slaves are now (?) OU represent the coloured people.
In the late 17th century, small but influential French group escaping religious persecution reached S.A and were assimilated to the Dutch population.
In the latter part of the 18th century, the British arrived in South Africa , and
Indians and Chinese came with the development of mining and sugar cane farming .Attention on retombe dans l'énumération ….
So we can see that many differnent peoples (avec un pluriel car pris dans le sens de peuples) moved to South Africa.
(The difficulties of Apartheid)All these peoples living together brought tensions:Let us not forget that England ruled South Africa and a minority of whites had control over all the others:it was the time of apartheid.
Apartheid is a African word that means separateness. It was a system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for 50 years.(are you sure , to me it's a lot longer) The goal-as said before- was to protect the domination of the whites over non-whites.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the rights of the native black South Africans were sidelined. Nevertheless, apartheid, set up by the National Party, didn't begin before 1948.
Afrikaners believed that South Africa was their god-given homeland and they considered the white race as superior.
They established a hundred and forty-eight apartheid laws.
The most important ones were the obligation for blacks to carry ID permits at all times, the strict curfews, the separation of public facilities for whites and non-whites, the ban of marriages between whites and other ethnies.
People were classified into four racial categories : whites, blacks, Indians and colored (people of mixed origins)conseil:try to avoid as much as possible the word race (I have changed it several times when possible) . They were all separated into different residential areas and blacks were divided into ten homelands based on tribal groups. Homelands were overcrowded and it was extremely difficult-if not impossible- to have a job. Wages were low and it was illegal to go on strike.
Apartheid was economically led by whites : a cheap workforce was needed particularly to work in the country's gold mines.
(The end of apartheid and the reconciliation between Blacks and Whites.)Ces transitions sont uniquement là pour vous aider à vous y retrouver, vous ne les exprimez pas pas , ok ?
The African National Congress (ANC) had to fight Apartheid to enable blacks and whites to be on a equal footing. In 1991, all the Apartheid’s laws were abolished and in 1994, Nelson Mandela, once a leader of the ANC and now a non-violent adocate, was elected president of South Africa. Before that he had been sentenced to jail for life but he came out after 27 years of hardship . He became the Nation's hero and as president he received the Nobel Prize. In 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was created to investigate on the human rights abuses. Desmond Tutu watched over this commission. On the trailer of In my country, two points of vue (views!!) are in contradiction. Anna Malan, an afrikaner broadcaster and reporter , was in favour of TRC (explain the three words)because traditional African justice is based on reconciliation and not revenge. Langston Whitfield, a African-American reporter was against TRC and he was wondering how there could be reconciliation if 99% of the country’s wealth was still in the hands of the white minority.
On this trailer, we can see all the efforts done by the government to build a new community composed of different races(ethnies) and cultures.
(Conclusion)
We have seen that
South Africa possesses a wide diversity of populations with different origins ( don't say it again ; à enlever !!like the San Bushmen, the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu, and people from the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Chinese and India.)Enlever cette énumération qui n'apporte rien During Apartheid, blacks fought against whites and they formed a solid community. This somber period gave more strength to the population: black people had experienced though lives. Today we know that apartheid is still an issue . But a new hope is rising: the South African Youth , born after the struggles against apartheid admit to be less committed to political matters . They do not wish to be defined by roots or race. They may well represent a new hope for South Africa.
J'ai transformé votre fin qui doit ouvrir sur un aspect nouveau : Ceci sera enseigné dans les nouveaux programmes pour le bac et le phénomène dont je parle existe déjà depuis un certain nombre d'années.
Vous allez surprendre votre examinateur et c'est un bon point (si on vous demande vos sources : on parle ici des Smarteez who prefer to define themselves through style and fashion rather than endorse the role of victims (even if inequality remains, young people are looking up to a brighter future)
:)
marion.correia
Bonjour Voici ma synthèse finie sur espace et échange. (oui j'ai remis le document sur la reine mais je l'aime beaucoup je verrai pour faire autrement dans l'autre synthèse :D )
Merci d'avance
I’m going to deal this notion of spaces and exchanges.. There are different sorts of exchanges and immigration flows are also forms of exchanges.
Today, space is a connected place thanks to new tchnological means like the internet. In class, we have talked about the notion of spaces and exchanges through the idea of the sport. The notion of sport illustrates perfectly the exchanges of kills through competition amongst various countries. Let us take for example, the Olympic games in germany(1936) australia (1956). The meeting in these places allow the exchanges. I will try to answer the following queston: In what do Olympic Games represent a moment of sharing between people from all around the world?
Firstly we will be interest of the armony of the Olympic games within the countries and this moment of sharing allows athletes to surpass themselves.
First and foremost I will simply define the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.
Therefore we will see one of the Olympic Games symbols that is the flag. In class we studied its meaning: The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.Furthermore The current view of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is that the symbol "reinforces the idea" that the Olympic Movement is international and welcomes all countries of the world to join. As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the "five continents" of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.
Further( je ne sais pas si c’est la bonne tournure pour également) in the speech Queen Elisabeth laid the emphasis on the importance of sport. She stressed the fact that it brings people together and creates a sense of community. Apart from developing physical fitness, sport and games can also teach vital social skills.None can be enjoyed without abiding by the rules, and no team can hope to succeed without co-operation between the players. This sort of positive team spirit can benefit communities, companies and enterprises of all kinds.As the success of recent Paralympics bears witness, a love of sport also has the power to help rehabilitate.
In other words as the so well said the queen the sport and more particularly the olympic games is a place of gathering and exchange between different disciplines and athletes from all over the world
we will now study the case of Jawad who is an amputee
To summarize Jawad, who was born without legs, his parents chose to emigrate to Great Britain for their children's safety. He was six years , he watched the World’s strongest Man on TV and he decided he would one day compete internationally in the sport he loved. Given that he was amputated he had to redouble his efforts to achieve his goals and at the same time to fight his illness ( Crohn's disease)
as the queen said thanks to the love of sport he was able to cope with his illness and won many medals. Like he took gold at the Asian Open Championships making a world record lift of 185.5 kg (2013)
As a conclusion hrough the speech of the Queen or by the symbol of the flag that sport is a place of sharing and exchange with the gathering of many countries.
sport contributes to many benefits such as unity, solidarity and surpassing oneself but are there any positive things in these competitions
fidji45
Bonjour Marion
Voici une proposition de notion (je corrige quelques erreurs ) et je vous faire part de certaines remarques .
Oral d'anglais - Espaces et échanges
Bonjour Voici ma synthèse finie sur espace et échange. (oui j'ai remis le document sur la reine mais je l'aime beaucoup je verrai pour faire autrement dans l'autre synthèse )Si votre prof vous l'a autorisé :faites -le (mais n'en abusez pas ! :)
I’m going to deal with thie notion of spaces and exchanges.. There are different sorts of exchanges and immigration flows are one of them.
Today, space is a connected place thanks to new tchnological means like the internet. In class, we have talked about the notion of spaces and exchanges through the idea of the sport. The notion of sport illustrates perfectly the exchanges of skills through competition amongst various countries. Let us take for example, the Olympic games in Germany(1936) Australia (1956). The meeting in these places allow the exchanges.(attention aux jeux de 1936 qui n'étaient pas des jeux ordinaires mais sous coupe hiltlérienne:seuls les athèltes allemeans étaient censés briller) I will try to answer the following question:
In whatway do The Olympic Games represent a moment of sharing between people from all around the world?
Firstly we will underline of the harmony of the Olympic games within the countries : this moment of sharing allows athletes to surpass themselves.
The Olympic Games are a leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from all overthe world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.
A stong Olympic symbol is the flag that all the athleltes share : The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world .Furthermore The current view of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is that the symbol reinforces the idea that the Olympic Movement is international and welcomes all countries of the world . As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the "five continents" of the world and the meeting of athletes from all over the world at the Olympic Games.
Furthermore (de plus) in …….(mettre la date ) at the Games which took place in London, Queen Elisabeth's speech laid emphasis on the importance of sport. She stressed the fact that it brings people together and creates a sense of community. Apart from developing physical fitness, sport and games can also teach vital social skills.None can be happy without abiding by the rules, and no team can hope to succeed without co-operation between the players. This sort of positive team spirit can benefit communities, companies and enterprises of all kinds.As the success of recent Paralympics shows, the love of sport also has the power to help give back pride and a sense of meaning in these atheltes' lives.
(j'ai effacé la suie car vous vous répétez)
We will now study the case of Jawad who is an amputee
(give his full name) Jawad, who was born without legsin 'country?) His parents chose to emigrate to Great Britain for their children's safety. He was six years old when he watched the World’s strongest Man on TV and he decided he would one day compete internationally in the sport he loved. Given that he was amputated he had to double his efforts to achieve his goals and at the same time to fight his illness ( Crohn's disease)
As the queen said thanks (?? je ne comprends pas?)to the love of sport he was able to cope with his illness and won many medals. He took won the gold medal at the Asian Open Championship and broke a world record lift of 185.5 kg ( in2013)
We have threrfore seen the sports, and in particular durin the Olympics, people shared common values even if they came from various countries.Sport make many qualities show , such as unity, solidarity and surpassing oneself so there many positive aspects in these competions.
Voilà je vous ai suggéré quelques simplifications; le niveau de langue et les idées déployées sont tout à fait honorables.
Bravo ! Continuez ainsi! :)
poishut
bonjour,
J'ai besoins de savoir si mon oral ci-dessous tient la route et si il y a des fautes :
SPACES AND EXCHANGES
First of all, we can remarque that when the first English settlers reached the New World, over 40 million people have migrated to America. All Americans are immigrants or children of immigrants. The exception is probably the Indians. But some anthropologists believe that the Indians themselves were immigrants from another continent. Moreover, because our world is changing quickly due to improvements in communications and transport, there are more and more immigrants, which create some issues. We can ask ourselves, what are the consequences of immigration and how immigrants are integrated into society?
In the beginning, immigrants were badly perceived by society. Because face to the unknown we are afraid. Indeed, because people don’t accept that their place in society is occupied by immigrants, at every opportunity they will find a way to accuse them. So, immigrants often become scapegoats and immigration leading to paranoia. For example, Sacco and Vanzetti were 2 Italians anarchists who were charged with murder just because eyewitnesses testified the murders looked Italians. This tends to create pressure and conflict in society. We can remarque that, the immigration of Puritans who wanted to live their life according to the scriptures, in the New World also triggered a massive wave of paranoia. Indeed because puritans have had to focus on the chores and the bible and have a strict lifestyle, so because they are different and acting strangely they were accused of witchcraft. This accusation led to the execution of thousands and thousands of women who were considered witches. So, we can observe that sometimes the US use immigrants as scapegoats in order to preserve social order. It’s the reason why the integration of immigrants which made multiculturalism a rather badly accepted phenomenon in the beginning.
Nowadays, witch hunts don’t exist anymore and we can observe that the integration of immigrants it’s a little bit more easily thanks to sport, because it embodies international values like team spirit, courage or fair play. So, through sport common values and interests are shared, and federate people around communication with others, and not violence, also around the fight against differences and the reduction of intolerance. We can see, through the Olympic games, immigrants are more and more integrated: in March 2016 international Olympic committee choose five to ten refugees to compete at the Rio Olympics. So besides the economic and cultural integration of immigrants who are difficult, social integration is facilitated by the sport because it is an activity that allows creating links between people, without having the same language.
To conclude, even if at the beginning immigrants weren’t accepted in the society, thank to sport their integration are easier. Nevertheless, immigration doesn’t just have a negative aspect. Indeed immigration has enriched the American culture and tends to create a multicultural society, with the emergence of Tv channels in Spanish for example. Because immigration is also accompanied by culture, traditions, and idea of immigrants.
d positive progress into a negative one in order to raise money. Otherwise, the negative effect it’s also provoked by the violence of movement of people who stand for a cause. So, progress isn’t always positive.
merci d'avance :D :D
marion.correia
merci beaucoup Fidji, pour vos éléments de correction
vous êtes d'une grande aide très précieuse
fidji45
Pas de souci Marion!
Je suis un peu débordée :as-tu fini ton autre notion?
:)
Othello
Bonjour, si l’un d’entre vous pouvait corriger ma notion Spaces and Exchanges et me dire par la même occasion ce qu’il en pense (je suis en L donc dix minutes), ce serait vraiment génial. Merci d’avance et bonne soirée.
I’m going talk about « spaces and exchanges ». First of all I would like to give a definition of this notion. This notion deals with the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interactions between men and different societies. Our world is built on the exploration and conquest of new spaces. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterised our modern-day world. To illustrate the notion, I’ve chosen to talk about the relations between the aborigines living in the Northern Canada and the Canadians because these populations lived in the same country but seem to be separated even if there are no borders between them.
Are culture, beliefs, and way of life, barriers comparable to borders?
To begin with, I am going to give the characteristics of the Northern Canada and the South Canada. Then, I am going to talk about the culture, languages, beliefs of both populations and finally, I will show the different barriers caused by these differences showing at the same time that a cohabitation is still possible.
Canada is a vast country where the climatic conditions are various. Indeed, the climate varies from temperate in the South to artic and subarctic in the North. Due to these harsh climatic conditions, most of the Canadian cities have been built in the South. Therefore, the major part of the Canadian population is concentrated in the South, in cities like Montreal or Toronto. Concerning, the aboriginal people they are isolated from the towns and are usually living in the North.
The climate, history and beliefs of the aborigines have shaped their way of life. They had to get acclimatized to sub-zero temperatures. As we can see in the text entitled “The top of the world” temperature in the North can reach -48,9 °C (forty-eight degrees Celsius). The aborigines had to feed in spite of the lack of vegetables growing in the North. In the text the narrator precises that fresh milk and vegetables are, (for the Inuit population) an exotic luxury. Aborigines also attach a big importance in nature. Indeed, in the video “Life on reserve”, the young man who spent about a month with the aborigines said he was choked to see how beautiful the nature was in the reserve he stayed. The languages the aborigines speak and their traditions are various and different from the Canadian’s one. We can see how meeting people from totally different area of the world enriches your mind and your knowledge. The fact that two cultures can share and experiment each others ressources is a really great human experience.
These are reasons why cohabitation between the Canadians people and them seems a bit difficult. In the document “Experimental Eskimos” we can understand how hard it can be to live in a community where the people did not share the same culture or beliefs.
The report relates to an experimental project set up in the sixties, which consisted in uprooting Inuit children from their families of origin, in order to entrust them to English-speaking families. The presenter then clarified that these children were part of an assimilation program, sponsored by the government. However, these Inuit children are now adults, and they want recognition of all the harm this program has caused them. They then filed a complaint against the government.The greatest difficulties arose when the Inuit returned home. They then suffered from the syndrome called "MUMU" ("most useless, most useful"), that is to say the syndrome of extremes of "more useless, more useful". What that means is that these Inuit had certain skills that their fellows did not have. For example, they could speak and write in English, and communicate freely with southern society. However, they did not know how to build an igloo or how to hunt, they did not know everything that was traditionally linked to the life and culture of the Inuit. The man concluded by saying that above all, these uprooted Inuit had lost their ability to communicate with their families and friends at home. It was a traumatic experience for them. They did not find their place in the aboriginal community. All of these things participate in creating a barrier among populations: the cultural and social barriers.
However, as showed in the document « Life on reserve », a cohabitation among these different populations is still possible. This cohabitation can be friendly, peaceful and pleasant. Indeed, to describe his experience among the native community, the young man in the report uses words like “marvelous “ or “ amazing“ which shows us a possible cohabitation even between different cultures.
So, as a conclusion we can considered the fact that the cultural differences between two populations can represent a barrier comparable to a border as it contribute in separating and isolating both populations. However, it can also be seen as a good thing. In my opinion, going from one community to another can be a rewarding experience considering the fact that both populations can teach to each other what they know, what they have learnt.
