跨文化学视阈下的文化集美

Cultural Incorporation of Beauty from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

考察跨文化学中的文化集美问题,有助于把握本文化在与异文化的相互接触中如何处理多元文化之美这一难题。文化集美不是要求把众多不同文化之美融合为一体或实现同一,而是承认它们各有其独立价值,只是让它们集束起来但又同时保持各自的独立性。之所以出现文化集美现象而非走向文化美的同一性,其根源就在于世间万物本来就存在差异而时常违背、抵制或拒绝同一性。文化集美可以表现为民族国家文化美之集美、族群文化美之集美、结构型文化美之集美、社会型文化美之集美、趣味型文化美之集美等五个层面,同时有着沟而通、异而承、人顺天、异趋同、异和异等多条路径。文化集美之展开也有着美己律、美人律和美集律等多种可能性,进而走向美美集束与美美异和。

An examination into cultural incorporation of beauty in cross-cultural studies is helpful in understanding how one culture deals with multi-cultural beauty in its interaction with other cultures.Cultural incorporation of beauty is not to merge or unify beauty of a variety of different cultures but to recognize that each has its own independent value,and it just bunches them up while at the same time maintaining their independence.The origin of the phenomenon of cultural incorporation of beauty rather than that of the identity of cultural beauty lies in the fact that all things in the world are full of differences and from time to time violate,resist or reject the identity.Cultural incorporation of beauty can be expressed as the incorporation of national cultural beauty,ethnic cultural beauty,structural cultural beauty,social cultural beauty and interesting cultural beauty as well.At the same time,there are plenty of paths to achieve it,such as cultural dialogue by communication,trans-cultural recognition of cultural diversity,compliance with human common wishes,seeking common ground and reserving difference as well as mutual harmony between different cultures.There are various possibilities in the process of cultural incorporation of beauty,such as the rule of acknowledging beauty of one culture among its own members,the rule of acknowledging beauty of different cultures,the rule of acknowledging the coexisting pattern of beauty of different cultures,which will move towards the coexistence of diverse beauty and mutual harmony of diverse beauty.