美語情景對話 第1083期:More Ecuador 進一步瞭解厄瓜多爾

Katia: Felipe, I want to ask you something that perhaps you can help me. I'm doing that paper of cultural diversity of Ecuador, perhaps you can tell me a little bit more about it.

卡蒂亞：菲利佩，我想問你些事情，我想你可以幫助我。我正在寫有關厄瓜多爾文化多樣性的論文，也許你可以給我介紹一下。

Felipe: Well, that's a really amazing topic we can talk about. Yeah. Well, Ecuador is really interesting because it has a lot of ethnic – many, many different ethnic groups. For example, depending on the regions, you know, for example in the coastal region, we have the Montubios ethnic group who have their own, you know, traditional language and food. In the highlands, we have the Quechua communities, who speak, you know, Quechua, which is a language originally from Peru from the Inca Empire. And if you travel to the Amazon region, you can find many different kinds of ethnic groups such as the Huaoranis who live in the jungle, you know, in the Amazon region. And you also can find Afro-Americans, you know, people who came from Africa in the 16th Century who live in the north part of Ecuador. Though they don't have the traditional language, they have traditional food and they have created their own, you know, music and many different traditions.

菲利佩：嗯，這是一個非常棒的話題，我們可以談談。厄瓜多爾是一個非常有意思的國家，因爲厄瓜多爾有很多不同的族羣。舉例來說，依據地域劃分的話，沿海地區有Montubios族，他們有自己的傳統語言和傳統食物。克丘亞族生活在高原，他們說克丘亞語，這種語言起源於祕魯印加帝國。如果你去亞馬遜地區，你會發現那裏有很多少數民族，比如生活在亞馬遜叢林的Huaoranis族。厄瓜多爾還有非裔美國人，這些人的祖先是16世紀的非洲人，他們現在生活在厄瓜多爾的北部地區。雖然他們沒有傳統語言，不過他們有傳統食物，而且他們創造了自己民族的音樂類型和許多民族傳統。

Katia: That is amazing. How can that happen in such a small country like Ecuador, have so many differences, cultural differences?

卡蒂亞：這太不可思議了。厄瓜多爾這樣的小國家，爲什麼會有這麼多文化差異？

Felipe: Yeah. That's because of history, you know, because if you look at the history of Ecuador, it's quite diverse. You have that in the 16th Century, Spanish people came and they brought a lot of culture and this culture is now mixed with the indigenous culture because originally in Ecuador, some – I don't know – 10,000 years ago, indigenous people have been living there. So that when Spanish people came, they both shared their own cultures. And also, you know, the Afro-American from Africa, they brought a lot of music and traditional culture from Africa. So that's the reason why you have a lot of diversity. It's really, really enjoyable, Ecuador.

菲利佩：嗯。這是因爲歷史原因，厄瓜多爾的歷史極具多樣性。16世紀時，西班牙人來到厄瓜多爾，他們帶來了很多文化，這些文化和本木文化相融合，在大約1萬年前，就有原住民生活在厄瓜多爾了。西班牙人到厄瓜多爾以後，他們和原住民互相分享各自的文化。另外，來自非洲的非裔美國人，他們帶來了很多非洲的傳統音樂和傳統文化。這就是厄瓜多爾多樣性豐富的原因。厄瓜多爾是一個非常有趣的國家。

Katia: That is so interesting. Really, thank you for this information. I think it's going to be really helpful for my paper.

卡蒂亞：這的確非常有意思。謝謝你的介紹。我想這對我的論文非常有幫助。

Felipe: Great. Okay. You're welcome.

菲利佩：那太好了。不客氣。

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