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ManySelves亚洲人为何不以自我为中心？AgroupofstudentsatCornell,borninAsiabutraisedintheUnitedStatesbyimmigrantparents,wereinstructedtokeepadiary.Theystruggledtorecalltheeventsoftheirowndailyliveswhentheywerelaterquizzedaboutthem,rememberingfewerdetailsabouttheirexperiencesthantheirEuro-Americancounterparts.QiWang,theCornellscholarof“cross-cultural”cognitionwhoconductedtheexperiment,speculatedthatAsianswerenotmoreforgetfulbutthattheyhad,perhaps,filteredoutthecontentsoftheirownstories,deemingthemunworthyofbeingencodedasmemoriesinthefirstplace.康奈尔大学的一群学生在老师的引导下写日记。他们出生在亚洲，随父母移民到美国长大。当追问他们日常生活中发生的事情时，虽然极力回忆，但是记得的细节比同辈的欧裔美国人要少。进行这项实验的是康奈尔大学研究“跨文化”认知的学者王琦（音译），他认为这不是因为亚洲人更健忘，而是因为他们可能认为自己生活中的某些细节不值得被记住，把它们过滤出去了。ThenovelistGishJencitesthesefindingsinhercuriousnewbookaboutAsianandAsian-Americannarratives,“TigerWriting,”asanexplanationforthe“notablyun-self-centered”approachofherfather’smemoir.Theaccount,whichhestartedwritingwhenhewas85yearsold,offeredfewdetailsofhisowngrandfather’s“appearanceorpersonalityortastes—thesortsofthingsweintheWestmightincludeasawayofconveyingbothhisuniquenessandhisimportanceasafigureinthenarrative.”Itinsteaddescribedatgreatlengththenumberofdoorsinthehousewhereherfathergrewupandwhethertheywereopenorshut—concentratingnotonhisindividualself,butonthecontextwithinwhichthatselfwassituated,andbywhichitwasconstrained.Theworldhedescribesisnot,asJenputsit,“amodern,linearworldofconflictandrisingaction,butratheroneofharmonyandeternal,cyclicalaction,inwhichorder,ritualandpeacearebeauty,andeventsspell,notexcitementorprogress,butdisruption.”小说家任碧莲(GishJen)在关于亚洲人和亚裔美国人叙述手法的探究性新作《老虎手书》(TigerWriting)中借用这些发现，来解释她父亲的回忆录“明显不以自己为中心”的原因。他85岁时开始写回忆录，其中极少提到他祖父的“容貌、个性或者口味——西方人也许会通过这些细节来表现他的独特性以及他作为叙述中的一个人物的重要性”。相反，他详细讲述了小时候住的房子有几个门，以及它们是开着的还是关着的。重点不在他自己身上，而在他身处的环境上，或者说束缚他的那个环境上。就像任说的那样，他描述的那个世界不是“一个现代的、线性的、有冲突和张力的世界，而是一个和谐、平静、循环的世界，在那里，秩序、习惯和平静就是美，而事件意味着混乱，并非兴奋或者进步”。LiketheyoungAsianstudentsatCornell,Jen’sfatherhadbeenbornintoaculturewhoseparentingstyleexplicitlyintendsthehumblingoftheindividualselfinfavoroftheneedsofthebroadercollective.(Parentsengageinshort,selectiveconversationwiththeirchildren,emphasizing“properbehavior,self-restraintandattunementtoothers.”)Whatthis“lowelaborative”parentingstyleaimsatinsteadisthecreationofan“interdependentself,”definednotbyitssenseofinnerautonomy,butbyitssensitivitytothesocialrolesitmustplaydependingonthecontextinwhichitfindsitself.Thescholarsofcross-culturalcognition,whorejecttheuniversalityofWesternmodelsofthemind,maintainthatthisemphasisonsocialcontexttranslatesintoameasurabledivergenceinhowEasternersandWesternersliterallyseethephysicalworld.JencitesanexperimentinwhichagroupofoldSingaporeanmenwereshownimagesofachangingfigureonanunchangingbackground.ThemenweresofixatedonthebackgroundattheexpenseofthefigurethatfMRIreadingsfailedtoregisteranychangeinperceptionwhenthefig...