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Growing up as an Asian in Britain is much more than a question of facing discrimination and trying to find a decent job—especial
Growing up as an Asian in Britain is much more than a question of facing discrimination and trying to find a decent job—especial
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2014-01-07
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问题
Growing up as an Asian in Britain is much more than a question of facing discrimination and trying to find a decent job—especially for a girl. She has to keep a delicate balance between two cultures: her own(Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc.)and the British.
Seetha Crishna has written a booklet called Girls of Asian Origin in Britain. In it the girls she is most concerned with are those who are definitely different because they have gone through the British educational system and have therefore emerged with an identity which is distinct from that of their parents.
"They speak English with regional English accents, they look comfortable in Western clothes, and they do not necessarily choose to work in a factory." But they are unmistakably Asian and they are still held by their Asian cultural roots. At home, an Asian girl may find herself conforming to the traditions and values of her parents, while at school she develops the attitudes and appetites of her British contemporaries.
As a result, Seetha Crishna found girls existing at two levels—and inclined to question both. "But unless they can successfully accept both, they will swing constantly from one level to the other, feeling trapped between the two—at considerable cost to their own confidence and happiness."
For teenage girls, the main difficulty is to match the social life which their parents expect them to live with that enjoyed by their schoolmates. "If an Asian girls is invited out to a party or to a film by someone her mother has not met, that person must come and meet her mother before permission is given—or refused. If a group of girls plan to go to the cinema, parents want them to be accompanied by brothers or male cousins, or even by an older relative or a trusted adult friend of the family."
Friends are girl friends. "Friends of the opposite sex simply do not exist, except for a brother’s male friends, who fall into the category of brothers." In South Asia, all this is taken for granted and all girls are subject to the same rule. But in Britain an Asian girl can immediately see the difference between her own life and that of her English schoolmates, and this makes it seem unjust and unfair. Some parents are aware that this puts a strain on their daughters and are therefore prepared to turn a blind eye if the code is sometimes broken. But above all they are anxious to "protect" the girls.
The parents’ primary concern is
选项
A、whether their daughters have girl friends only.
B、whether their daughters are treated fairly in Britain.
C、to maintain the code of behavior in their daughters.
D、to ensure their daughters against any dangers.
答案
D
解析
最后一段末句的above all表明父母最关心的是如何“保护”他们的女儿,也就是说,他们最关心的是女儿的人身安全问题。由此可见,D与原文内容最接近,故选D。最后一段倒数第2句表明父母对于女儿的交友标准已有所放松,因此与此相关的A、C两项都不是父母最关心的问题;在原文很难看出父母对“公平待遇”问题的关注度,故不能选B。
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