文化边界与国际贸易

Cultural Boundary and International Trade

文化是人类在社会实践中所获得的能力和创造的成果。它具有实用性、社会性、学习性、发展性、价值载体等特征。每一种文化模式都隐含着不同的社会利益、价值取向以及社会成员对生活方式的认可或否认,并与造成这种差异的特定社会环境相联系。一些西方国家通过文化边界的扩张,试图改变、调整以至最后消除各国之间自然的和人为的疆界,建立“文化霸权”。所以国际贸易既是国际之间商品和服务的竞争,又是文化的较量。

Culture is the fruit of human collective creativity and social practice. It is characteristic of practicability, sociability, development, and media of value. Any culture contains its specific social interests, value orientations, and lifestyles accepted or rejected by the social members. Besides, culture is closely related to the social context that causes these differences. By exporting their cultures to other countries, some western countries attempt to change and even to extiminate the natural or geographical boundaries for the purpose of establishing a 'cultural hegemonism' . Therefore, international trade is both a competion of merehandise and services and of cultures.