There will always be nations. Part 2

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А.Н. Войткова

Patriotism:
American &British

values vs Russian ones

(In The World of Linguo-Cultural
Studies & Cross-Cultural Communication)

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МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РФ
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ БЮДЖЕТНОЕ
ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ВЫСШЕГО
ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«ИРКУТСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ
ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»

А.Н. Войткова

Patriotism:
American &British

values vs Russian ones

(In The World of Linguo-Cultural
Studies & Cross-Cultural Communication)

Второе издание переработанное и дополненное

Учебное пособие

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Contents
Book 2
Module 4 What is Patriotism?
 (1) Yankee Doodle - unofficial anthem
Module 5 National values:
 (1) American values & beliefs
 (2) Core British values
 (3) Comparing Russian & British values
Module 6 A bit about Russia
 (1) Religious creeds in Russia
 (2) Stereotypes and symbols of Russia
 (3) Russian Folk craft
 (4) Russian traditions
 (5) Folklore of rural Russia
 (6) Funerals in Russia & in other countries
Module 7.1 Russian New Year vs American & British
X-mas
 (1) Holiday decorations and New Year resolutions,
etc..)
 (2) Christmas superstitions
 (3) New Year & all that jazz in Russia
 (4) The origin of the Father Frost & Snow maid)
X-mas is coming (additional text)
Module 7.2 Religious & pagan holidays in Russia in
detail
 Epiphany
 Easter
 Shrovetide
Module 8 Nursery Rhymes
 (1) The Horrible Meaning behind Nursery Rhymes
 (2) The secret History of the Nursery Rhyme
 (3) Whose is Mother Goose ?
 (4) Lullabies for babies & toddlers
 (5) Clapping songs

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Module 4
1. What is patriotism?

a) Read the text below & say what you
think about the basic patriotic terms.

Ask most American adults today whether they are
patriotic, and the answer is a heartfelt yes, regardless of
politics.
In fact, 94.5% of Americans think of themselves as
at least somewhat patriotic, and 72.2% say they are either
very or extremely patriotic, according to a new USA
TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll of 1,009 adults. Only 5% of
those polled said they were "not especially patriotic."
But exactly what is patriotism?
In a general way, patriotism means love of country
— love of one's country, one's homeland — a very simple
emotional attachment to the place where you're from," says
Jack Citrin, professor of political science at the University
of California at Berkeley.
"After that, agreement tends to dissolve."
Some people religiously salute the flag; some wrap themselves in the flag —
literally. Others burn it and say patriotism is about protest.
"There are various ways people love the country, just as there are various
ways people love their spouses or love their friends," says Thomas Cushman, a
professor of sociology at Wellesley College.
Patriotism is so complex that academicians have loosely broken it down into
categories, although they don't all agree on the labels:
•Devout patriotism. Unconditional loyalty to country. Also called blind
patriotism because adherents will support the country no matter what, espousing
the ideology, "My country; right or wrong."
•Symbolic patriotism. Attachment to symbols and rituals, such as the flag
and patriotic songs.
•Constructive or critical patriotism. Belief that the best way to love one's
country is with constructive criticism of the government.
Increasingly these days, disagreement leads to arguments and accusations of
others being unpatriotic.
Patriotism "is something that almost everyone thinks is good," says Nolan
McCarty, professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton. "So if you can attach
your idea to something that is good — Mom, apple pie, patriotism — that's a
particularly effective way of selling the idea.
Patriotism raises questions of the sort philosophers characteristically discuss:
How is patriotism to be defined? How is it related to similar attitudes, such as
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nationalism? What is its moral standing: is it morally valuable or perhaps even
mandatory, or is it rather a stance we should avoid? Yet until a few decades ago,
philosophers used to show next to no interest in the subject.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/patriotism/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-29-patriotism-side_x.htm

b) Watch the video(1) and (2) & sum up the ideas & discuss
their premises in class.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S0mLlFw0aGE

2. Render the ideas in the sayings into English and into
Russian
1. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Сэмюэл
Джонсон
2. The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism
is moral cowardice — and always has been. — Марк Твен
3. To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, «Our
Country, right or wrong», and urge on the little war. Have you
not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
— Марк Твен
4. To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled
by geography. Джордж Сантаяна
5. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. — Оскар Уайльд
6. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may
hate his king, yet not love his country. — Сэмюэл Джонсон
7. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. — Бертран Рассел
8. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were
born in it. — Джордж Бернард Шоу

9. Патриотическая идеология не позволяет делить соотечественников на «белую кость» и
«быдло», она не признает исключительных прав «титульной нации» и не делит жителей
страны, как лошадей в упряжке, на «коренных» и «некоренных». — Борис Кагарлицкий,
Управляемая демократия: Россия, которую нам навязали
10. Патриотизм в самом простом, ясном и несомненном значении своем есть не что иное для
правителей, как орудие для достижения властолюбивых и корыстных целей, а для
управляемых — отречение от человеческого достоинства, разума, совести и рабское
подчинение себя тем, кто во власти. Так он и проповедуется везде, где проповедуется
патриотизм. Патриотизм есть рабство. — Из книги «Христианство и патриотизм» — Лев
Николаевич Толстой.
11. Я, конечно, презираю отечество мое с головы до ног — но мне досадно, если иностранец
разделяет со мною это чувство. — Из письма П. А. Вяземскому от 27 мая 1826 г. Из Пскова
в Петербург — Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
12. Патриотизм — это изумительное чувство, которого не существует у людей, которые вслух
произносят это слово. — В передаче «Дифирамб», на радиостанции «Эхо Москвы» —
Игорь Миронович Губерман
13. Долг патриота — защищать свою страну от ее правительства. — Томас Пейн
14. Истинный патриот — это человек, который, заплатив штраф за неправильную
парковку, радуется, что система действует эффективно. — Питер Уостхолм
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15. Нет патриотов там, где речь идёт о налогах. — Джордж Оруэлл
16. Патриотизм по сути своей агрессивен, а патриоты, как правило — люди злые. — Оскар
Уайльд
17. «Патриотизм» значит просто «убей иноверца». — Борис Гребенщиков
18. Патриот — это мужик, живущий в избе с соломенной крышей, но истово гордящийся тем,
что у его барина самый высокий дом во всей волости.
— Лев Семёнович Рубинштейн (Википедия)
http://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/Патриотизм

3. Surf the net & search for a cartoon or caricature on the
patriotic issues. Bring them in & comment on the main issue
which is being mocked in the cartoon.

4. Act out a talk show summing up the above-mentioned
patriotic
issues.
Compare the
way how the
Russian &
American are
patriotic.

5. Yankee Doodle - unofficial anthem

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a) Look at the cartoon above. Comment on the patriotic
issues.
Notes:
* Yankee - янки; американец; английская речь американцев; относящийся к
янки; житель Новой Англии; северянин (житель одного из северных штатов)
*Doodle - болван; бездельник;

b) Do you know who & what Yankee Doodle
is. Watch the video clip for children & follow
the lyrics. Discuss what be implied in the
context. Do you understand the satire in the
song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZQZ8KL3as

Kids Version of Yankee Doodle:

Yankee Doodle went to town Father and I went down to camp
A-riding on a pony Along with Captain Gooding
He stuck a feather in his hat And there we saw the men and boys
And called it macaroni As thick as hasty pudding.
Chorus
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle, keep it up And there was Gen’ral Washington
Yankee Doodle dandy Upon a slapping stallion
Mind the music and the step A giving orders to his man
and with the girls be handy! I guess there was a million.

c) Read the explanation of this patriotic
song

Singing a song in Revolutionary America was not
necessarily an innocent act. At the time, almost everyone
sang in public on occasion, either for entertainment, for
worship, or as part of their work. However, songs were
also important instruments of satire and mockery. People
used them to make fun of public figures, to pass ugly
rumors, or to playfully insult their enemies—and
sometimes their friends.
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As opposition to British rule in the American colonies heated up, satirical
songs took on a new edge. Rebellious colonists sang songs insulting Britain’s king,
George III, as a drunken tyrant, and British soldiers answered with songs ridiculing
the Americans as backwoods yokels.
One of these songs, which told the story of a poorly dressed Yankee
simpleton, or "doodle", was so popular with British troops that they played it as
they marched to battle on the first day of the Revolutionary War. The rebels
quickly claimed the song as their own, though, and created dozens of new verses
that mocked the British, praised the new Continental Army, and hailed its
commander, George Washington.
Yankee Doodle, the patriotic song (and state anthem of Connecticut) was
originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled and
disorganized American colonists who fought alongside them during the French and
Indian Wars
The Americans took the song (and insult) and turned it around: they were
proud to be called Yankees, and Yankee Doodle became a patriotic song.
The origin of the Yankee Doodle is murky, but it is thought to originate in
15th century Holland as a harvesting song that began "Yanker dudel doodle down."
The same tune was used for an English nursey rhyme "Lucy Locket."
There are several possible origins of the word "yankee," but I like this one:
it's a Indian corruption of "anglais," the French word for English.
Doodle is actually a 17th century word meaning "fool."
The macaroni in the lyric is not pasta - it's
actually a pejorative term for a man who dressed in
a ridiculously outlandish style. The word came
from the Italian word "maccherone" or a boorish
fool.
The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in
the 1770s and became contemporary slang for
foppishness. The Macaronis adopted feminine
mannerisms, and the men were deemed
'effeminate.' Thus, the British were insinuating that
the colonists were womanish and not very
masculine.
By 1781, when the British surrendered at
Yorktown, being called a "Yankee Doodle" had
gone from being an insult to a point of pride, and
the song had become the new republic’s unofficial
national anthem
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/songs/yankee_doodle.html
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/yankee-doodle-fun-facts/

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Module 4
National values
Part 1

1. Being an American.

a) Continue the sentence “To be
American means ……………”

 Have you come across the phrase “melting
pot” about the USA? Think over what this
phrase might imply

America has traditionally been referred to as a "melting pot," welcoming
people from many different countries, races, and religions, all hoping to find
freedom, new opportunities, and a better way of life.
Strictly speaking, the only indigenous Americans are the American
Indians who were living here long before the first waves of settlers came over
from Europe. When Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, he
called these natives "Indians" because he thought he had discovered a western
route to India.
Today the trend is toward multiculturalism, not assimilation. The old
"melting pot" metaphor is giving way to new metaphors such as "salad bowl"
and "mosaic", mixtures of various ingredients that keep their individual
characteristics. Immigrant populations within the United States are not being
blended together in one "pot", but rather they are transforming American
Society into a truly multicultural mosaic.
http://www.culturalsavvy.com/understanding_american_culture.htm
b) Watch the video file “What does it mean to be American”
& sum up the ideas in the box below.
http://www.youtube.com/results?hl=ru&cp=35&gs_id=0&xhr=t&q
Daniel Bylor
(College of William & Mary)
McKinley Sims
(College of William & Mary)
Mathew Howard
(Resident Of Virginia Beach
VA)
Alexandra Lichtenstein
(Princess Ann High School)
Paul Camacho
(Cristopher Newport
University)
Leon Spinner
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