新加坡华族文化的建构与彷徨——以新谣运动与七月歌台为例

Singapore-style Chinese Culture Building and Confusion:A Case Study of the Xinyao Movement and Getai Culture

新加坡成立以来经历了两次语言教育政策的变迁,反映了政府强力建构新加坡式华族文化的努力。然而,通过观察新谣运动与七月歌台的变迁,可以看出政府的这一尝试并不成功。由于新加坡政府针对华族的文化政策有着难以解决的三大矛盾,导致华族的文化认同滞后于政治认同,中下层华族易陷入文化迷失。

Singapore has undergone linguistic and educational changes for twice since its independence, as the Government＇ s efforts to build up a Singapore-style Chinese culture. However, by studying the changes of Xinyao Movement and Getai Culture, this paper concludes that such attempts have failed. Since there are three conflicts that are hard to be resolved in Singapore government＇ s cultural policies, the cultural identification of ethnic Chinese lag behind the formation of their political identification. As a result, the people of middle and the lower classes were put into confusion and lost themselves culturally.