论西部贫困文化

西部贫困文化是一个建构在西部贫困区域民众的生活现状和国内外研究贫困文化的学者的大量论述基础之上的并不十分严密的概念。其实质是对西部贫困区域内人们生活方式的一种文化解读。在解读和剖析该概念的过程中,我们不难发现:西部贫困文化不等于落后文化;它是“原始性”和“制度性”综合作用的结果,其现状往往表现为“文化失范”;西部贫困文化是可变的,在全球化背景下,必然会溶入文化现代化的潮流。针对这些特点,我们一方面应在经济扶贫时关注文化扶贫,力争把文化的民族性与时代性结合起来,构建出适合西部社会发展的“规范的”文化模式。另一方面,要在西部开发中汲取西部贫困文化中的优秀成分,博采众长,努力与市场经济接轨,避免这一文化走向封闭、淘汰或西化的困境。

On Poverty Culture of West China

The concept, poverty culture of west China, is loosely constructed on the basis of the present poor lividng conditions of people in West China,and of the many discussions of poverty-studying scholars at home and abrosd. Its core is a kind of cultural interpretation of the life style of people living in the region. It could be easily discovered in interpreting and analysing it that the poverty culture of west China is not a backward culture, but the result of the combination of "primitiveness" and "institutionality" in the form of "cultural disorientation", and that poverty culture of west China is subject to change under the background of globlization, and is inevitable to merge into the trend of cultural modernization . With these considerations in mind, attention should be paid to helping the poor not only economically but also culturally to combine national features of culture with that of the times to cultivate a "modified' cultural pattern that is suitable for social development of west China. On the other hand, excellent ingredients of poverty culture should be protected and enhanced in the process of the great development of west China, cultural advantages borrowed from other parts of the country and linked to market economy to keep the culture from being closed, eliminated or westernized.