Formation Of Island Culture Of Three Gorges Migrants

Island Culture is a special cultural phenomenon. Three Gorges migrants are typical involuntary population movements of engineering immigrants. They were forced to move to a strange cultural area and might not adjust to the production and living, psychological and cultural. Coupled with the language barriers to communication and the influence of immigrant mentality, immigrants are easy to generate exclusion and negative emotions to the local culture. It will obstruct the communication and information flows inside and outside the village and forming a Island Culture.This paper attempts to use Fieldwork research and depth visit to the Three Gorges resettlement villages called J in Yamen Town of Xinhui District in Guangdong Province. Combining the studies of Communication and Sociology, the paper is trying to research the channels and effects of the information inside and outside of the group,and to research the communications and construction of the social relationships. Based on the research before, I want to discuss wether it formed the Island Culture and the formation of this culture.Under this research we can find that information communication plays a significant role in the formation of Island Culture from the internal environment and external environment.First of all, on the establishment of the flow of information and social relations in the villages, with the rupture of the village’s original local social relations and the crisis of confidence caused by the competing interests in business impact, it has not yet formed their own culture antibodies in response to the impact of external culture.Secondly, there are some barriers to communication between immigrants and the government, the mass media and the local people. First, immigrants have some bias against the local people. Second, they don’t trust the government but rely on it. Third, they dont’t like and feel indifference to the mass media. All of these have hindered their adaptability to local cultural life and high-leveled their sense of loneliness. On the whole, when the Three Gorges migrants in the village faced the difference in social relations and status and cultures from outside, they established a special culture called Island Culture while under the influence of geographical and cultural differences, language barriers and the impact of the business model and immigrants superiority.