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高二教案 第803期(1) 发布时间:2020-09-14 点这里下载本页内容 (423.0 KB) 2020-2021学年度第4期总第803期 blond hair, blue eyes and a high nose What are some Westerners' impression of us? wearing a bamboo hat, tiny eyes stereotype: a fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality Stereotypes and cultural misunderstandings exist between the East and West. Tiny Eyes Comics, an online cartoon strip by Paris-based visual designer Cao Siyu, tries to foster greater understanding among people from different countries and cultures. The comic covers everyday topics. Title prediction Read the title and predict what the passage is about. Fast-reading 2.What’s the comic series mainly about? Give some examples. One comic strip illustrates the countries’ different water preferences. Three glasses are shown, each with a country’s name underneath. The glass of water from the US has ice; the one from France is sparkling water; the one from China is steaming. Cao also notes differences in expressions of emotions between loved ones in Eastern and Western cultures. One illustration shows an American directly telling her mother that she loves her, while a Chinese daughter asks about her mother’s health and advises her to wear more clothes due to the weather. One of her popular illustrations shows how complicated French cutlery is, compared with the Chinese tradition of using chopsticks. Chinese people can use chopsticks to eat everything, but in France, there are no less than eight types of fork, knife and spoon required to finish a single, multiple-course meal. One of her comics shows the cultural differences behind the debate about usage of masks in which a Chinese girl wearing a mask on the metro is stared at weirdly by others. 3. How do readers feel about Tiny Eyes Comics ? •“In a few strokes, Siyu Cao produces scenes of everyday life … and challenges the prejudices and representations we make of each other, deconstructing them with personal anecdotes.” |
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