跨文化传播与互动:中餐馆与北美犹太人和华人的身份建构

Cross-cultural Communication and Interaction:Chinese Restaurants and the Identity Construction of the Chinese and the Jewish in the North America

在北美多族群共生的文化语境中,作为非基督徒的犹太人与华人,在全美浓厚的圣诞氛围中,共同创造了在节日当天到中餐馆食用中餐的传统,并通过这一传统建构和重塑了多元文化社会中的个人与民族身份。通过探究造成这一传统的潜在原因,可以揭示不同族群是如何基于各自文化身份,通过日常生活中相互之间的文化交流与互动,创造性地应对社会生活中不同身份困境与认同焦虑的方式和路径,同时,也有助于认识和理解实现积极有效的跨文化传播与互动的途径和方法。

In the multicultural and multiethnic context of the North America and especially during the Christmas season,the Jewish and the Chinese as two non-Christian groups have together created a Chinese-food festive tradition on the Christmas day,through which they have reconstructed their own individual and ethnic identities.An incisive analysis of the causal factors of this tradition reveals the means and approaches creatively adopted by different ethnic groups in their dealing with identity dilemmas and worries through their daily cultural interaction on the basis of their own identity,which helps reveal better the means and approaches for effective cross-cultural communication.