1、 本科畢業(yè)論文 中國80后一代眼中的美國文化 和中國文化學(xué)生姓名： 學(xué)生學(xué)號： 200310206124 院（系）： 外國語學(xué)院 年級專業(yè)： 2003級英語本科4班 指導(dǎo)教師： 二七年五月american culture and chinese culture in chinese y generations eyes1wang dongjieunder the supervision ofchen jianghongschool of foreign languages and culturespanzhihua universitymay 2007contentsabstractikey

2、wordsi摘 要ii關(guān)鍵詞iiintroduction1i status of y generation accepting american culture2a.copying the ideas in american culture lock, stock and barral2b. mcchina: a consequence of enjoyment4c.sex in y generations eyes5ii ways of y generation to spread chinese culture and nation spirits7a.combining inherita

3、nce with originality7b.avoiding cultural hegemonism and conservatism9c. unifying absorption and spreading10conclusion11acknowledgements12notes13bibliography14abstractthe wave of globalization has been shaking every nook and cranny of the world. peoples ways of thinking and activities have changed a

4、lot as the speed of this wave run fast. and then our traditional moral and routine have been lashed fiercely, however, the moral system complying with this wave has not been set up, which leads the disruption in our society. especially the y generation, born after 1980s, takes it directly and blindl

5、y before we acknowledge it profoundly. their activities make chinese culture and national spirit become “periphery”. at the time they globalized, the y generation does not care of in the core of chinese culture.copying foreigners without any choices lashed chinese weak cultural activities and phenom

6、enon. it is not enough to have prosperous economy to keep chinese culture and national spirit exist in the forests of the world nation; meanwhile, the y generation should make chinese culture and national spirit run leading position in the world.in a word, they should be under the situation, choosin

7、g essences and abandoning dross.key wordsglobalization; culture; y generation摘要全球化的歷史潮流，正震蕩著世界的各個角落。隨著全球化的進程的加快，人們的價值觀念、思維方式和行為方式發(fā)生著劇烈的變化，傳統(tǒng)的道德規(guī)范受到強烈沖擊，而與全球化進程相一致的道德體系尚未建立起來，導(dǎo)致社會道德出現(xiàn)了某種混亂和無序。特別是被喻為“新人類”的80后一代。在沒有認清這一趨勢的同時，特別是在追崇西方文化的同時，他們漸漸淡漠了自己的文化精髓、歷史甚至自己的人格。這種毫無選擇的“拿來”， 沖擊著中國脆弱的文化活動和現(xiàn)象，如何讓中國的文化立足

8、于世界民族之林？光有繁榮的經(jīng)濟是不行的，還要讓中國的文化走在世界的前列。作為繼往開來的一代， 這樣的重任就落在新人類的肩上。總之，新人類要審時奪度，取其精華，舍其糟粕。關(guān)鍵詞全球化; 文化; 新人類introduction the y generation enters the time of globalization. as the most active group at present, the y generation young men receive the tendency positively, even if some do not know what the real m

9、eaning is. especially american cultures, they bring them barely no matter what is useful or not. the generation gives up chinese excellent family heirlooms and national spirits in pursuit of fashion and sense of fresh.when mentioning globalization, people can think about economy easily. however, dif

10、ferent cultures intagrate nowdays. what leads to such result is that the y generations ideas are globalized, however, the wordglobalization is neutral without any faults.clash of cultures makes people think more about the survival of chinese culture. the glorious and arduous task is loaded on the y

11、generations shoulders.undoubtedly, as the positive part, the y generation can not copy directly but must learn to magnify chinese culture, choose essences and abandon dross.i status of y generation accepting american culturea. copying the ideas in western culture lock, stock and barrala college girl

12、 wrote a diary in her note as follow:the mr. right in my heart should be up to standards as follow:height:175 (5cm higher than mens average in china)weight：heihgt-110=w (kg)age: as young as me (elder than me in 5 at most)education: a least a bachelorskill: a computer genius, acknowledging the etique

13、tte of china, good at sports.personal character: diligent, honest, self-dependent, humor, warm-hearted, handsomeof course, he is a lady killer. but i am his killer, i mean here he really love me only. he never put on the god to show off his money.meanwhile, our love story should be tortuous and roma

14、ntic but the end is well, just like the story of darcy and elizabeth in pride and prejudice by jane austen.surely, all of the above what i have written can not subsume all merits of an excellent mr. right. he may be height of perfection in after. i do not reject the man having so many virtues.obviou

15、sly, the girl has thrown herself on austens feet. western culture has been affecting our generation, especially american culture.this is a pervasive phenomenon in college campus in our country. when you hang out in campus, you will see such a group of student with different imaginative and incredibl

16、e hair styles, colorful and fantastic clothes, mouthful modern and elusive words. they are far too sophisticated these days. what is strange is that the change is so common that the y generation is not aware of it. unless one who has profound chinese culture level may say something about it, its act

17、ivities are accepted as “normal” and justified with little question. without controversy, the time is ongoing without any consideration and alternative. are those changes affected by globalization? answer is uniqueyes. and what is globalization? why is the y generation globalized?globalization refer

18、s to a cultural and economic phenomenon which is formed by flowing of substance and token capital such as race, video, science and technology, ideology and transnational movement. the y generation is considered as a new outside idea. what is more, country police offers us a relaxed environment.the n

19、ew race is interested in american culture, life style and consumption habit, especially the americas dream. what attract the new race are special american traits. they embodies in coopers the pioneer. the novels hero, a land developer, takes his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. but his c

20、ousin looks around bewildered. all she sees is stubby forest. “where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. he is astonished she can not see them. “where? why everywhere!” he replies. for though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they

21、 are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.cooper was illustrating a distinctly american trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to co

22、me. “america is therefore the land of the future.” the german philosopher hegel wrote. “l(fā)ife for americans is always becoming, never being.” one word affects a generation. the new race transforms their idea of consumption, knowing deficit spending, changes their life styles, it is said that the most

23、 of internet use takes place in china. meanwhile, what people eat at breakfast has become milk and bread, what people wear has become the famous brand from the world.however, the word also brings some negative effects, the obliviousness to their history, the increasing alien personal character, the

24、frenzied waste of talents. the author think people will never forget the famous mountaineering organization called shangying agency in qinghua university. enjoying the thrill and challenge has them overwhelmed in the storm. blindness, arbitration, foolhardiness made waste, but they have no chance to

25、 think about and understand the detail of the waste.is it true that the foreign moon is bigger and more beautiful than ours? “made in america” has labeled anywhere, however, “made in china” only appears on the small goods.b. mcchina: a consequence of enjoymentfast food has infiltrated every big city

26、 in our country since 1980s. the new industry has peppered into every nook and cranny of western country has been popular in the new group. the author investigated the fast food shop in panzhihua. the number has exceeded 5 in the small downtown, such as kfc and dicos. most consumers are youth, even

27、if there are some old people, who are only moneybags. these shops have become the good place to hold parties and have a holiday.pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, listen to the pop music, walk in, get on line, study the book lit color photographs above the counter, place your order

28、, hand over some money, watch teenagers in uniforms pushing various buttons saying “good choices”, moment later, take hold of a plastic tray full of food wrapped in color paper and cardboard.the whole experience of buying fast food has become so routine for the y generation, so thoroughly unexceptio

29、nal and mundane, that it is now taken for granted, like brushing teeth or stopping for red light.furthermore, chinese traditional social environment faces challenge. lots of chinese special snake shops confront bleak reception. so a strange culture called alternative modernity appears in this line.

30、in panzhihua, a new fast foot shop with fitting chinese diet habit is born, which is called meilelin.in the field of literature, this phenomenon belongs to postcolonial theory. which refers to the confliction of two different social cultures because of the effect of colony, from spivaks outside in t

31、he teaching machine, meanwhile, subversion of outside culture.it proves to be not only a revolutionary force but a fierce force of globalization. what the y generation eats (or does not eat) is determined by a complex interplay of social economy, and technological force, meanwhile, the enjoyment of

32、them. a nations diet can be more revealing than its art and literature.reception the fast food imply to a new preference of value, just like the fans love all of a singers songs because they love him, people play basketball because the time of basketball belongs to nba, blindness, no destination but

33、 only pursuing modern, though the y generation are bland for high fat and sugar in hamburger.undoubtedly, it is the attitudes which stigmatize them from society who smuggle heavy fetishism and jouissance and leave their excellent family heirloom go away.of course, reception new ideas and matters are

34、 peoples necessary skill. however, do chinese people always stay at the table with kinds of hamburgers without any home dishes? please remember: we are different race from white and black.c. sex in y generations eyessurely, it is the time for the y generation to show their opinion on this matter and

35、 be able to. they are most active group in this research fieldas the y generation will be the main force of social reform in 21st century.this is not a social matter but a moral issue under the sun. the most serious fact is sexism, which describes the specificity of female oppression.in china, it is

36、 a fact that the females have been objectified from ancient time. the traditional and feudal patriarchy has controlled the whole society about 2000 years. this status embodies two core conceptions.the first is that the men are more important than women. not necessarily superiorpeople are far too sop

37、histicated these days than to use those tainted termsbut more important, more significant, more valuable, more worthwhile. it is value that justifies the idea that it is more important for a man, the “breadwinner”, to have a job or a promotion, than a woman, more important for a man to be paid well,

38、 more important for a man to have an education and in general to have preference over a woman.it is a basis of feeling by men that if women enter a particular occupation they will degrade it and that men must leave or be themselves degraded, and the feeling by women that they can raise the prestige

39、of their professions by recruiting men, which they can only do by giving them the better jobs.from this value comes the attitude that a husband must earn more than his wife or suffer a loss of personal status and a wife must subsume her interests to his or he socially castigated. from this value com

40、es the practice of rewarding men foe serving in the armed forces and punishing women for having children. the first core concept of sexist thought is that men do the important work in the world and the work done by men is what is important.the second core concept is that women are here for the pleas

41、ure and assistant of men. this is what is meant when women are told that their role is complementary to that of men; that they should fulfill their natural “feminine” functions; that they are “different” from men and should not compete with them.from this concept comes the attitude that women are an

42、d should be dependent on men: for everything but especially their identities, the social definition of whom they are. it defines the few roles foe which women are socially rewardedwife, mother and mistressall of which are pleasing or beneficial to men, and leads directly to the “pedestal” theory whi

43、ch extols women who stay in their place as good help-mates to men.it is this attitude which stigmatized those women who do not marry or who do not devote their primary energies to the care of men and their children. association with a man is the basic criterion for participation by women in this soc

44、iety and one who does not seek her identity through a man is a threat to the social values. it is similarly this attitude which causes womens liberation activists to be libeled as man haters for exposing the nature of the sexism. people feel that a woman not devoted to looking after men must act thi

45、s way because of hatred or inability to “catch” one. the second core concept of sexist thought is that womens identities are defined by their relationship to men and their social value by that of the men they are related to.however, there are more changes now. as some new ides about womens liberatio

46、n movement flow into mainland, such as feminism, ethical feminism and radical feminism takes up the y generations eyes. the females of new race are beginning to cast off the embarrassing situation. they work so hard in college that they can start an enterprise by themselves. the author made an inves

47、tigation two weeks ago, which shows that about the most of scholarship getters are girls in the school of foreigner language and culture. they learn better than boys in common. they show more self-dependent, more indomitable, more self-confident and more skillful. it certainly does not say that wher

48、e there is enough quantity, there is good quality.the feminism also brings some negative effects for the y generation. some females go to extreme, and then a new word turns uplesbianism in order to shake off men. anyway, they never learn that they have deviated from basic nature rule.four years in c

49、ollege, the author always see such note for renting out the room paid by the hour, some of which have an incredible names called the room full of romantic. it is easy to say that some colleges students have lived together looking like a lawful couple. it looks like that trail marriage is reasonable

50、for us, what is absent is just to promulgate constitution. and some senior school students want social to admit that they are adults when they are 16 years old because the situation is legal in western country.the y generation, as well as the society, cannot say this is wrong. but a nations value pr

51、eference is decided by its own culture, economy and politics. we cannot alter such things. pursue high modern, say, need reason and thought.ii ways of y generation to spread chinese culture and nation spiritsobviously, the chinese culture has been globalized fast. what should the y generation do whe

52、n the wave of globalization is coming?a. combining inheritance with originalitychina has long time history and fine tradition, which plays an important role on unifying the whole national people. some of them, such as stressing honesty, emphasizing harmony, paying attention to education, advocating

53、morality, can still drawn on now in china. the first and foremost of inheriting the outstanding chinese traditional culture is to inherit, breed and magnify national spirits, which is the most important connotation of chinese culture, and the force of evoking the whole national people.the inventing

54、culture, the enhancing the force of attraction and the influence of chinese culture is very significant to comply with the globalization. in order to carry on inventing the culture, the y generation should base themselves on construction and practice of our society, and see from the angle of front r

55、ank of science and hi-tech. the y generation should comply with the general tendency and keep chinese literature and tradition more and more vigorous. any literature and tradition could not keep youth until reforming from time to time.so people cannot say what the foreigner say, cannot do that they

56、do. chinese society modernization not distinguished national traits originates from only has prosperous economy but also vigorous culture. chinese great socialism culture is based on 5,000 years civilization history, which has clear time character. it does not only mirror the basic trait of economic

57、 and politic in socialism, but play an important role in the development of economic and politic.the y generation, as a hero of the new time and main force to reform in the country, must clam down and observe the whole tendency carefully.the globalization makes different cultures strike mutually, ab

58、sorption but rejection, syncretism but impact, infiltration but resistance. in fact, most developing countries stand in a weak place in general; the y generation face the challenge not only in the field of economy but our own culture. so what we say and do should be good for inheriting and magnifying our perfect tradition, meanwhile, absorbing foreign cultures do not mean copying lock, stock and barrel.the y generation must keep their minds clear: remaining and developing their own national cul