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Cultural Experience And Neo-migrants' Fortune

Posted on:2006-02-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Q ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360155462903Subject:Literature and art
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Neo-migrants' fortune is tightly connected with their cultural experience in foreign countries. As a constructive, mutable concept, culture's presence and development influences individual life pattern deeply, and the intricate relationship between the struggle of life and choice of culture of neo-migrants is manifested in Chinese Australian Neo-migrating Literature. The crisis of the existence of flesh and blood makes the physical anxiety of neo-migrants and indefinite identity does the spiritual anxiety characterized as two patterns of anxiety: cultural identity and residential status. Struggle for lack of physical matters tires neo-migrants and makes them unsettled, and culture shock also takes them into a dilemma—whether acceptance or refusal between different culture. At one time, Australia is viewed by neo-migrants at other-vision, on the one hand, Australia is admired and sought novelty, on the other hand, it also suffers from pride and bias. Tension and tune, vagrant and sight-seer, vilification and beautification, refusal and acceptance, a series of self-contradictory factors are juxtaposed each other, which represent neo-migrants' bafflement of existence and confusion of cultural identity rooted at the inherent conflict between cultural guard and cultural change.The sexual difference is expressed in the narration of love story in Chinese Australian Neo-migrating Literature, which emerges as an intense opposition beyond sharing the suffering. Male authority is weakened or deprived of, and the male images are described as decadent, weak, wretched, dejected and no prospects. Meanwhile, female subjective consciousness is stressed greatly by exerting death-blow on male Chinese making use of advantage of western culture and men. In fact, the defeat of male Chinese in the West symbolizes an uneven fight between the West culture and Chinese culture.The accumulation of migrating experience brings the possibility to cultural reconstruction and cultural change, and long-standing culture shock will accelerate finally intercommunication and absorption. The increasing Australian experience is taking or have taken neo-migrants into cultural change, which is not assimilated completely, contrarily, but mixed new cultural factors into each other, and transforming traditional culture, thereby representing multidimensional characteristics. Neo-migrants have attained global eyeshot due to cultural opening and renewal, which, on the other hand, have taken them into consideration of difference and sameness, intercourse and learning from each other between the West culture and Chinese culture, and consideration of their own or the whole neo-migrants community. That consideration indicates a solemn and stirring characteristic to some degree.The spiritual course of neo-migrants have been expressed deeply in Chinese Australian Neo-migrating Literature. It is a risk and need a long time to adapt themselves to new conditions for neo-migrants to live in foreign country. From hope, novelty, shock to disappointment, pain, despair to struggle, settling down, calmness and try to seek cultural opening and comprehension, it embodies neo-migrants' profound individual life experience and tight relationship between mankind living and cultural identity.
Keywords/Search Tags:neo-migrants, individual fortune, cultural experience, identity, spiritual course
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