論城市間的相似性與不相似性
On the Universal and Distinctive Elements in Counties
Humans have largely overlapping biologies and live in fairly similar social structures and physical environments, which create major similarities in the way they form cultures. But within the framework of similarities there are differences.
人類在生理上有很大部分是重疊相似的,生活的社會結(jié)構(gòu)以及物理環(huán)境相當(dāng)相似,創(chuàng)造了很大部分文化形成方式的相似性。但在相似性的框架之中存有不相似性。
因此,一方面城市生活是相似的人類社會結(jié)構(gòu)以及物理環(huán)境的微縮,另一方面也是不相似的,在數(shù)字生活的平面化和目前階段。文化由城市間的相似性與不似性帶來差別,并成為文化的載體,中國不同城市代表了不同的文化氛圍,城市間的相似性與不相似性間的比較帶來了居住者對其的自豪感以及厭惡感,并將這一感覺擴(kuò)展延申至國家機(jī)構(gòu)。黑石一雄在其小說《被掩埋的巨人》(the buried giant)中以冰山一角的方式描述了:
you would have reached the next settlement, and to your eyes, this one would have seemed identical to the first. But to the inhabitants themselves,there would have been many distinguishing details of which they would have been proud or ashamed.
你應(yīng)該就會看到第二個村莊,在你眼里,和第一個沒什么不同。但對村民自己來說,肯定有很多細(xì)微的差別,有的讓他們驕傲,有的讓他們羞愧。