马来西亚华裔新生代的“祖籍记忆”初探

Probe into the "Memory of Ancestral Home" among the New Generations of Citizens of Chinese Origin in Malaysia

调查表明,马来西亚华裔新生代的国民认同和族群认同均表现出相当的强度,我们倾向于把这种“双强”的特征看作是走向多元文化主义的马来西亚华裔集体自我意识的结构特征。而“祖籍记忆”正是华裔构建其族群认同的意识和文化基础。一方面,华裔可能通过和祖籍国建立更多的联系来维持和加强祖籍记忆,以达到强化族群意识的目的;另一方面,在多元文化主义的政治背景下,为立足当地生存和发展,将祖籍国“对象化”也成为其策略。

Our research shows that the new generations of citizens of Chinese origin in Malaysia have expressed the strong identification both in ethnicity and citizenship. We see this ＂dual intensity＂ as the structural trait of their collective self - towards multi - culturalism. The memory of ancestral home is the very ideological and cultural basis of their ethnic identification. On the one hand, they may maintain and strengthen their memory of ancestral home through making more contacts with their ancestral country; and on the other, in the political context of multicuhuralism, they can strategically take their ancestral country as an object for local subsistence and development.