Hello!
How are you? Today let's look at indigenous people (先住民族) and unique communities (ユニークなコミュニティー・社会) around the world.
For a start, let's look at the picture above. Do you know who they are? They are a group of Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu.
If you do not know who they are, they are originally different from most Japanese. At one time they lived from the northeastern part of the Tohoku, all of Hokkaido, and the way up through Sakhalin Island (what older Japanese call Karafuto 「樺太」) and even up through the Kuril Islands (千島列島).
Here is a map of where they once were spread out at the most:
But now they only live in Hokkaido. Their numbers are small, and they have married regular Japanese people enough so that they do not look so different. But they are proud of their culture and traditions.
Homework
Here is one video about the Ainu. Watch it and answer the questions below it. It's in Japanese and is short, but watch the video more than once if you have to.
I hope you find this interesting.
Take care! See you next time!
How are you? Today let's look at indigenous people (先住民族) and unique communities (ユニークなコミュニティー・社会) around the world.
For a start, let's look at the picture above. Do you know who they are? They are a group of Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu.
If you do not know who they are, they are originally different from most Japanese. At one time they lived from the northeastern part of the Tohoku, all of Hokkaido, and the way up through Sakhalin Island (what older Japanese call Karafuto 「樺太」) and even up through the Kuril Islands (千島列島).
Here is a map of where they once were spread out at the most:
Homework
Here is one video about the Ainu. Watch it and answer the questions below it. It's in Japanese and is short, but watch the video more than once if you have to.
Here are the questions. Please write the answers to these in your notebooks:
1. The first man is Akibe Tokuhei, the deputy executive director of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido. What does he say is the first thing that Ainu people do when they gather together?
2. Which rights does he say that the UN said are basic to all indigenous people around the world?
3. What is the most important right he believes that the Japanese government took from the Ainu?
4. What kind of right in government does he want the Ainu to have?
5. What does Sakai Mina say about the dance and music of the Ainu Rebels band?
6. What kind of image does she say that most Japanese have had about the Ainu?
7. How did she used to feel about being an Ainu?
8. When did she begin to change her feeling about being an Ainu?
9. What does "ainu" mean in the Ainu language?
10. What did the Ainu do for their traditional way of life for centuries?
Now here is a second video. It's a short animation with an Ainu song, in the Ainu language. There is only one question about it:
How similar do you think the Ainu language is to Japanese, or other Asian languages you know or have heard? What's your feeling about it? (If you watch and listen to this video directly on YouTube, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (字幕). Try it!)
Take care! See you next time!
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