多元文化或同化：亨廷顿的族群文化观与东南亚华族

亨廷顿的文明冲突论是其族群文化观对国际政冶格局的解读。其族群文化观源于美国的族群理论中的盎格鲁一萨克逊优越论。在美国国内,亨廷顿断言多元文化将使美国分裂而反对多元文化,主张用以盎格鲁一萨克逊文化代表的美国核心文化同化其他移民族群。在国际上,亨廷顿强调不同宗教文化的难以调和性,似乎由主流文化同化其他族群才是解决“国家间和国家内部的文明冲突”的出路。正如同化理论在美国日益没落而多元文化广被认可一样,在东南亚,一个各族群可以和睦相处的多元社会的构建不但是一种理念,也能成为现实。

Cultural Pluralism or Assimilation: Huntington's "Concept of Ethnic Culture" and the Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia

The famous theory of "clash of civilization" S. P. Huntington used to explain global politics comes from his awareness of domestic ethnic cultural structure. Huntington declared that pluralistic culture would lead to the split of the U. S., and therefore the Anglo-Saxon should be the core culture to unite American spirits. He stresses that the clash between religions and cultures will be difficult to be mediated, and the cultural assimilation should be the only way out for the cultural clash either in U.S. or in other countries. However, despite the cultural assimilation was abandoned by the American scholars and politicians, the idea of plural cultures and ethnicities comes to be gradually accepted by the Southeast Asians.