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Activity

Lesson

4

101

cultural minorities

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By studying this lesson

you explain the diversity of minorities

cultural world.

Read the text "The Eternal Flame" and highlights the different

tes ethnic and cultural groups mentioned.

Then choose one of the customs that

describe and draw.

Show your drawing to a partner and ask

what cultural or ethnic group of the above

reading corresponds. At the time that

guesses your partner, you should do the same

with your drawing.

Group, considering what I learned in fifth

degree on cultural groups in the world,

identify which cultural groups are

Minority interest in reading.

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The Tuareg are a cultural minority

in the deserts of North Africa.

As in Spain, there are various social groups minority

ority located in different countries around the world. The

lifestyles and cultural events bring wealth

cultural diversity of geographical space.

The eternal flame *

The flame of a candle has always represented the lonely soul. So Catholics light candles for the

souls of the dead and no permanent flames in many tombs of the unknown soldier, to remember

to all those who have died in the war.

In many parts of the Mediterranean are held during Holy Week processions in which

the inhabitants of all towns and cities rise with candles and torches to a point holy place

on top of a mountain or a hill. The journey takes place in the dark and between the soft scent of

the flowers. At midnight on Holy Saturday the Easter candle is lit, which gives its light to many

other candles to celebrate Easter.

Hindus light a funeral pyre, only the tradition decides which member of the family of the deceased

You should light. Viking kings and great heroes, however, they were thrown into the sea in ships together

with their most valuable objects, which caught fire before it sank, despite their enormous value.

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Mary Hoffman y Jane Ray,

Song of the Earth. Myths, legends and

traditions

, Mexico,

SEP

-Ramón Llaca, 2003 (Libros del Rincón).