Учебное пособие G. G. Gubina english for tourists in professional communication part I textbook

Central Australian Natives 
 
The tribes of the aborigines living in Central Australia occupy the territory of about 700 square 
miles. The relief of the terrain is Steppe and desert with few rainfalls and a lot of sun, rugged red rocks and 
gum-trees. In the desert the draught is longer and the life is harder, but on the territory of the Steppes the 
life is neither miserable nor hard.
Each tribe speaks its own dialect. The aborigines of the tribe live in small local groups with well-
known boundaries of the given area. The men with spears and boomerangs hunt for wallabies, kangaroos, 
and emus. The women catch small animals, supply the group with seeds, tubers, and native plums. The 
individuals in these groups call themselves by names of the animals or plants, forming the Totemic groups 
of kangaroo men, emu men, etc.
There are no chiefs in the tribes. The decisive role in the tribe plays a council of older men of the 
tribe, dealing with all the tribe problems, i.e., the problems of punishment for violation of tribal customs, 
sacred rites, ceremonies, funerals. 
The tribes had previously been numerous and various, but nowadays they are rare because of the 
influence of white people. Thus lessens the influence of the old men of the tribe on the young men. Young 
aboriginals, communicating with white people, forget their old traditions and customs, but, at the same 
time, they do not always take the best of the culture of white people. This process leads to new diseases 
and reduction in the number of aborigines. The Australian government is facing the problems of 

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preservation of national minorities and their cultures in a contemporary multicultural world. It is important 
to find the best ways of solving them. 
Task 14. Solve the problem. Use the technology of brainstorming. Make it a class discussion.  
If you were a member of the Australian government, how would you solve the problems of 
preservation of national minorities and their cultures and integrating them into a contemporary world?