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Unit 1 Aland of diversity 第一单元 一个多元文化的国土

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CALIFORNIA

California is the third largest state in the USA but has the

largest population. It also has the distinction of being the

most multicultural state in the USA, having attracted people

from all over the world. The customs and languages of the

immigrants live on in their new home. This diversity of culture

is not surprising when you know the history of California.

NATIVE AMERCANS

In the 18th century California was ruled by Spain. Spanish

soldiers first arrived in South America in the early 16th

century, when they fought against the native people and took

their land. Two centuries later, the Spanish had settled in most

parts of South America and along the northwest coast of what we

now call the United States. Of the first Spanish to go to

California, the majority were religious men, whose ministry was

to teach the Catholic religion to the natives. In 1821, the

people of Me某ico gained their independence from Spain.

California then became part of Me某ico. In 1846 the United

States declared war on Me某ico, and after the war won by the

USA, Me某ico had to give California to the USA. However, there

is still a strong Spanish influence in the state. That is why

today over 40 of Californians speak Spanish as a first or second

language. RUSSIANS

In the early 1800s, Russian hunters, who had originally gone

to Alaska, began settling in California. Today there are about

25,000 Russian-Americans living in and around San Francisco.

GOLD MINERS

Although Chinese immigrants began to arrive during the Gold

Rush Period, it was the building of the rail network from the

west to the east coast that brought even larger numbers to

California in the 1860s. Today, Chinese-Americans live in all

parts of California, although a large percentage have chosen to

stay in the Other immigrants such as Italians, mainly fishermen

but also wine makers, arrived in California in the late 19th

century. In 1911 immigrants from Denmark established a town of

their own, which today still keeps up their Danish culture. By

the 1920s the film industry was well established in Hollywood,

California. The industry boom attracted Europeans including many

Jewish people. Today California has the second largest Jewish

population in the United se farmers began arriving

in California at the beginning of the 20th century, and since

the 1980s a lot more have settled there. People from Africa have

been living in California since the 1800s, when they moved north

from Me某ico. However, even more arrived between 1942 and 1945


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