What鈥檚 in a Name? Multiculturalism by the Name of Transculturalism May Smell as Bitter

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• 作者：Weiguo Qu
• 关键词：Multiculturalism ; Transculturalism ; Colonized mind ; Openness
• 刊名：Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：7
• 期：4
• 页码：537-550
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• 作者单位：Weiguo Qu (1)
  
  1. Department of English, College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University, 220 Handan Rd, Shanghai, 200433, China
  
• 刊物类别：Social Sciences, general; Economics general; Philosophy;
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences, general; Economics general; Philosophy;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：2198-2600

文摘

The paper argues that a change of the name from multiculturalism to transculturalism will not work magic if the thinking paradigm that dictates transculturalism is still the same mindset that dictates multiculturalism, which is basically swayed by postcolonialism, a victim mentality, or what Fanon termed as a colonized mind that conceives the world ahistorically in terms of a false binarism of the West and the non-West, ignoring entirely the complexities of power relations in intercultural and intracultural interactions, and disregarding the simple facts that, as the West is not a colonizing whole, the non-West is not a colonized monolith and that, as there are diversities between cultures in the West and the non-West, there are differences within the Western cultures, within the non-Western cultures, and within each culture. I discuss the failures of multiculturalism, critique the indiscriminate application of postcolonialism, and look into the problems and risks of conceiving power relations in cross-cultural interactions along the postcolonialist binary line, which has reduced the diversified world into the West and the non-West. The transculturalist hypothesis of World Englishes is used as a case in point. My conclusion is that transculturalism can only be meaningful if it adopts 鈥渁 disposition of openness, liberated from the colonized mind or the postcolonialist identity politics.鈥?/p> Keywords Multiculturalism Transculturalism Colonized mind Openness