Questão 2157650

Analise o texto a seguir sobre cultura inglesa:

1. England’s contribution to both British and world culture is too vast for anything but a
2. cursory survey here. Historically, England was a very homogeneous country and developed
3. coherent traditions, but, especially as the British Empire expanded and the country absorbed
4. peoples from throughout the globe, English culture has been accented with diverse
5. contributions from Afro-Caribbeans, Asians, Muslims, and other immigrant groups. Other
6. parts of the United Kingdom have experienced the same social and cultural diversification,
7. with the result that England is not always distinguishable from Wales and Scotland or even
8. Northern Ireland. The former insularity of English life has been replaced by a cosmopolitan
9. familiarity with all things exotic: fish and chips have given way to Indian, Chinese, and Italian
10. cuisine, guitar-based rock blends with South Asian rap and Afro-Caribbean salsa, and the
11. English language itself abounds in neologisms drawn from nearly every one of the world’s
12. tongues.
13. Even as England has become ever more diverse culturally, it continues to exert a strong
14. cultural influence ___ the rest of the world. English music, film, and literature enjoy wide
15. audiences overseas, and the English language has gained ever-increasing currency as the
16. preferred international medium of cultural and economic exchange.

(Disponível em: www.britannica.com/place/England/Cultural-life – texto adaptado especialmente para esta prova).

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