159 An Austrian custom that a tourist might find strange is … One custom from another country that people should know about is … Revision: Passives Read the following text about a cultural practice in Canada. Complete it with the correct passive form of the verbs in the box. You have to use the correct tense. Sometimes a negation is necessary. call discover discriminate expect fix ignore mean refer speak suppose LANGUAGE 20 Looking back: Complete the way2go! learning portfolio for Unit 11 (online code 4w8fh3). Honouring the past In Canada, there is a special way to begin a special event or simply a school assembly. You will often hear someone say, “I would like to acknowledge that we are on the unceded territories of …,” and then they’ll say the name of the local First Nation(s). ‘First Nation(s)’ is how the indigenous peoples of Canada (1) to. What is that all about? Statements like these (2) ‘land acknowledgements’, and they have become an important practice in some former colonial nations, such as Australia, the US and Canada. In Canada, they (3) to be performed at many official events now to remind non-indigenous Canadians that Canada (4) by white settlers. Indigenous people had been living there for thousands of years when the first European settlers arrived. There were many indigenous cultures all across the continent, and over 300 languages (5) . However, this cultural tradition (6) for a long time, and the claim of indigenous people on their traditional territories was not acknowledged. For this reason, indigenous communities (7) against throughout history, and even today, they have poorer health and lower levels of education than, for example, non-indigenous Canadians. Can all this (8) with land acknowledgements? Of course not. Land acknowledgements (9) to solve every problem by themselves, but they (10) to be a first step towards more concrete support for First Nation communities. Way more! Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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