自我与他者的身份建构——读《作为自我的稻米》

Identity construction of self and other——Reading Rice as Self

在全球化冲击下,身份认同的界线逐渐变得模糊不清甚至消失,造成了思想混乱,给民族团结与稳定造成巨大的挑战,建构身份认同成为现实之必然。身份认同的建构是一个长期变化的过程,它不仅涉及到个人和民族的身份问题,还涉及到国家和文化层面,身份认同只有在自我与他者的互动联系中才能建构起来。自我与他者的关系紧密相连,他者作为自我必不可少的参照物,在原则上只能作为被贬损的对象来突出自我的优越性,否则不利于身份认同的建构。在日本人与亚洲其他人以及西方人身份建构过程中,稻米这一具有特殊属性的象征符号成为区别自我与他者的关键。

Under the impact of globalization, the boundary of identity has gradually become blurred or even disappeared, resulting in ideological confusion, to the national unity and stability caused great challenges, the construction of identity to become a reality inevitable. The construction of identity is a long-term process of change. It involves not only individual and national identity, but also national and cultural aspects. Identity can only be constructed in the interaction between the self and the other. Self and other relations are closely linked, the other as an essential reference to the self, in principle, can only be used as a derogatory object to highlight the superiority of the self, otherwise not conducive to the construction of identity. In the Japanese and other Asian and Western identity construction process, the rice has a special attribute of the symbol to distinguish between self and the other key.