文化与认同:略论民族国家整理多样性的途径

Culture and Identity:On How States Deal with the Diversity

人类学界普遍接受这样一种观点,即在世界互联日益增强的几十年来,也就是说,在全球化的时代里,对文化的识辨应该采取多视角的方式。本文首先在全球化的视野里对文化的层次作一概要性的陈述;继而将认同作为剖析对象,以理解为何民族国家在民族认同(national identity)建构上要有文化之诉求?不同的文化层次在那些方面与民族共同体的形成与持续互为因果?而对现代民族国家如何整理多样性的讨论则构成本文第三部分。本文的中心议题是:民族共同体在如何在网状互联的今日世界独善其身,持续寻求其民族/国族认同(quest for national identity)。

There is a belief widely accepted that in the era of globalization,culture should be identified in multiperspectives in accordance with an increasingly intensive interconnectedness in the world.This paper firstly examines the levels of culture of the present-day;secondly,explores why every modern state has claimed to certain identity for its nationhood;then,how to deal with issues of diversity forms the third part of this study.The central concern of this paper is how the national community holds on to its dignity and insistently search for its national/cultural identity in a world that its differently parts have been interconnected.