Eskimo villages today are larger and
more complex than the traditional nomadic groups of Eskimo kinsmen. Village
decision making is organized through community councils and co-operative boards
of directors, institutions which the Eskimos were encouraged by the government
to adopt. They have been more readily accepted in villages like Fort Chimo where
there is an individualistic wage ethos and where ties of kinship are less
important than in the rural village such as Port Burwell, where communal sharing between kinsmen is more emphasized. Greater contact with southern Canadians and better educational facilities have shown Fort Chimo Eskimos that it is possible to argue and negotiate with the government rather than to acquiesce passively in its policies. The old-age paternalism of southern Canadian A. They were a useful source of unskilled labor. B. The Canadians had the responsibility of looking after them for the Eskimos’ own good. C. They should be encouraged to carry out useful government projects. D. They should be kept under firm government control. [单项选择]
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In the villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about. Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the world’s biggest community. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors. 我来回答: 提交
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