《通天塔》中文化霸权的经济解读

伊纳里图执导的影片《通天塔》揭示的绝不仅仅是语言的隔膜造成的沟通的失败,还有其背后的根本原因——经济发展差异。人与人之间的交流沟通关乎其文化心理,而一个群体的文化心理必然与其所处的社会经济地位和对社会财富掌控的多少紧密相关。世界本就是一个经济发展水平极不平衡且具有广泛差异性的复合体,只有经济地位和经济发展水平的不平等,不存在文化的优劣高低。经济基础决定着作为上层建筑的文化的性质和价值取向,强势经济必然带来文化霸权的繁衍。

An Economic Approach to Cultural Hegemony in Babel

From the film Babel directed by Alejandro Gonzdlez I 6rritu, it is proved that people＇s different economic status in the world results in the failure of the communication, but not only due to the different languages. The power of the cultural psychology in a group, which plays an important part in understanding each other, is closely related to the respective social economic po- sitions and the possession of the wealth. The disequilibrium and the enormous differences of the development of the economic level is the fact of the world which only produces the inequality of the economic status and its development, but not the quatily of cultures. As one kind of the su- perstructures, the characteristics and its value orientation of culture are dependent on the econom- ic foundation. Dominance in economy absolutely leads to the prevalence of cukural hegemony.