Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics

This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one’s mainstream education and profession versus one’s ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identities associated with the inclusive and flexible self-concept of tribal participants allowed them to in turn take advantage of two divergent cultural meaning systems pertaining to their distinct socio-cultural contexts. These shifts were experienced as not endogenous but rather exogenous variables, which did not cause the historically theorized issues. Participants felt their tribal identities instead facilitated meaningful integration of the existing incongruences, which resulted in unexpectedly resilient subjective experiencing.     

South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century: towards a theory of ‘triple identity’

This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-speaking countries, i.e. the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It is in countries such as these that a third identity emerges and develops to instill a sense of triple identity. The information here suggests that, when people of Indian origin migrate to one of these countries, they continue to cling to South Africa because it is their country of birth, as well as to India, more for sentimental rather than practical reasons. The topic of this paper reflects a contemporary phenomenon not just among the Indians in South Africa, but also among other diasporas such as Chinese in Latin America, whose new and final emigration destination always seems to be the US. In addition, people of Chinese origin in the countries of Indochina, such as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, experienced similar patterns of becoming diasporas in Europe, North America and Oceania in the 1970s. However, migration implores them to renegotiate their identities in order to adapt and settle in accordance with their newly adopted host territories. This gives rise to an identity that straddles three countries, which induces the need to examine new ways of identity building in a global transnational economy.     

中国古代文学教学与大学生创新能力的培养

中国古代文学是一份蕴涵丰富的创新教育素材,但在中国古代文学教学中实施创新教育却是一项复杂的系统工程。文章着重探讨在以知识经济为时代特征的21世纪,高等学校的中国古代文学教学在发挥学科优势、促进创新能力培养的过程中要应对的关键问题,其中包括中国古代文学课的创新教育素材的处理问题;如何对待原教科书的问题;如何对待本学科发展动态的问题等。     

深蕴着人情美的艺术珠玑——《古诗十九首》艺术特色谫论

《古诗十九首》不但把文学从经学中解放出来 ,而且在艺术上具有很高的成就。它善于借景抒情 ,又善于撷取抒情主人公瞬息的感情、生活片断来抒发主人公的内心情感 ,特别是在构思上具有很高的艺术性 ,真可谓钟嵘所说的“一字千金”     

试论米利都的文化中心地位及其成因

米利都是古希腊早期的文化中心 ,但由于相关资料的缺乏 ,它一直未引起史学界的广泛关注。文章通过论述米利都创始性的文化成就 ,从政治、经济、文化传统、对外交流 4个方面分析其成因 ,对米利都在古希腊文化史上的地位做出客观评价。     

中国古代时空秩序的修辞建构及其理据

根据日照长短和方向建构时空秩序,是中国古人对与自身生存息息相关的太阳长期细微观察的结果,这里存在着客观参照物的选择、主体思维方式以及学理层面的解释依据。     

卡伯拉尔远航印度意义初探

1500-1501年卡伯拉尔率葡萄牙舰队远航印度,堪称地理大发现第一阶段仅次于三大航行的第四大航行。这次远航经过了欧美非亚四大洲,往返行程5.5万公里。卡伯拉尔远航开创了发现、殖民南美大陆和巴西的进程,重新发现了世界第四大岛马达加斯加。从此葡萄牙人在印度辟建商站立足插手,创建商业殖民帝国;同时开始在印度洋上打击摩尔人—穆斯林,由此开辟了反击反包围摩尔人—穆斯林的新战线,实现了当初的一个战略意图,问鼎印度洋霸权。     

古诗词中专有名词的翻译

在古诗词的翻译中,专有名词的翻译是一大难点,由于两种语言、两种文化背景的巨大差异,以及诗歌艺术手法上的特殊性,需要根据不同词汇在不同语境下的具体涵义,作出最合乎整首诗歌思想内涵的解释和翻译。     

Government Risk Management Priorities: A Comparison of the Preferences of Asian Indian Americans and Other Americans

A survey was conducted of approximately 200 Asian Indian Americans and 200 other residents of New Jersey in order to understand the risk management priorities that they want government to have. We found that Asian Indian Americans, especially younger women, focused on personal/family risks, such as alcohol and drug abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. The New Jersey comparison group, in contrast, placed war/terrorism and loss of health care services and insurance at the top of their priorities for government. These results suggest stressful acculturation-related issues within the Asian Indian community. Both populations want more risk management from government than they believe government is currently providing. Respondents who wanted more from government tended to dread the risk, be fearful of the consequences, trust government, and have a feeling of personal efficacy. Within the Asian Indian American sample, wide variations were observed by language spoken at home and religious affiliation. Notably, Muslims and Hindi language speakers tended not to trust government and hence wanted less government involvement. This study supports our call for studies of recent migrant populations and Johnson's for testing ethnic identity and acculturation as factors in risk judgments.     

公民社会产生与发展的内在逻辑

公民社会理论在当代已发展成为一种重要的政治思想范式和学术研讨领域,它为人们构建理想社会的努力提供指南。然而,从目前研究的总体情况看,与公民社会理论兴起相伴随的,却是普遍存在着的规范主义和目的论,从而削弱了其实践指导功能。为此,运用新制度主义方法,通过探讨公民社会形成与发展的内在动因,廓清公民社会产生与发展的内在逻辑,将使对公民社会的经验分析成为可能。