Lion City pulse
In order to simplify the content of electronic biological paper, to the Xia Immigration Bureau, the parents' nominal disciplines have caused a lot of controversy.After the continuous fermentation and discussion of public opinion, the official finally decided to take it back.In this regard, I think this reflects the status anxiety of local Chinese Zongxiang associations and individuals.Because for geopolitical communities, the native logo has been removed, and the fundamental element of its own cohesion is deprived.For example, the most representative and strength in the local area, the "father" of the applicant must be required to be a Fujian national.Once it is impossible, it is difficult to prove the origin of individuals, and the old exclusive geopolitical system is facing the danger of completely collapse.
The importance of nationality, groups are often more sensitive than individuals.Many of the local young people have been blurred by the concept of the old state.Especially after the rooting of the ground, only Chinese characters on their parents' birth paper are left.Humanities are more meaningful to Zongxiang Society with resources.New immigrants like me from non -traditional Singaporean ancestors, if they joined the new immigrant organization, have very little geographical restrictions.After all, it is because even if these new immigrant groups with pure friendship functions are added, there are not many "solids."However, if you want to join many affiliated schools and the "rich and powerful" Fujian club, it is difficult to be like Qingtian.It can be seen that the local mainstream Zongxiang organization is more sensitive to each other.The government's desire of its nominations may cause the local Chinese to lose an intuitive reminder of cultural heritage, and more importantly, it is a direct threat from front.
The tangible effect on the contemporary people has not been as big as the past, but this is not the case in the early exotic migrant society.The difficult living environment allows people to warm up the group through their nostalgia and affection.Form strong social mobilization and organizational ability.Like the Anti -Japanese War, the local overseas Chinese lead the order, and overseas Chinese from all walks of life can raise a large amount of money to support the Chinese front.At this time, the overseas Chinese community also had a strong multinational interaction relationship with his home country.
All of these have changed with the founding of Singapore.The Chinese people in Singapore have taken root, and the Chinese communities have also reduced their emotional dependence on their homeland; the grass -roots governance roles of Chinese communities have gradually transferred to government functional departments.In addition, after 1949, the ideological confrontation between the two countries has made the local Chinese communities in the double seams of the new China.For more than 30 years that the two countries have been completely interrupted, the local Chinese communities have lost their cultural water.By the 1980s, with the transformation of local teaching language to English, the role of local Chinese agencies in the grassroots society in Singapore further weakened.Only because of the rapid improvement of China's national strength at the same time, economic demands have strengthened the rationality of the existence of local Zongxiang communities.
However, the transnational identity of the Zongxiang Club itself has a certain tension with the unified Singapore identity in some cases.This is even more obvious in the new immigrant society, especially when the leader of the new immigration community has certain political positions, it is more likely to become a spear of foreign political propaganda and weaken the duties that help new immigrants to take root.Especially with the tide of globalization in recent years and the intensification of the confrontation between the East and the West, Singapore's Chinese communities will also face more political choices and tests.
The history of the Zongxiang community in the New Malaysia area is even longer than the Gentleman's Hall in China.At present, the earlier convention in China was established in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and it will be in the Qing Dynasty in Beijing.At first, it was mostly related to the entrepreneurial students in the Ming and Qing dynasties to entertain students from all over the world. In the future, it gradually became a field of capital, culture, economy, and political elites.To put it simply, the intellectual elites sponsored by the old capital and real power figures, the latter continued to give back to these halls after entering the power class to achieve a virtuous circle of people with obvious ethnic cultural characteristics.There are no past grass -roots governance functions in Singapore's Zongxiang organization, but they have more flexible social and cultural functions, so they can become an important guide for future development of local Zongxiang organizations.
In the future of Singapore's Zongxiang Society, the value of existence is that in this unsuccessful society, maintaining the old cultural traditions and customs habits in the local area to build the cultural identity of Singaporeans.Because from exotic to home, it is a difficult process of cultural adaptation and reconstruction.At the same time, they can also extend Singapore's physical borders through the structure of blood, geography, and kinship.Finally, they can also become a cultural field to build a social, political, and economic activities of social elites from all walks of life and people engaged in social, political, and economic activities.This may be the potential goal of the role of local Zongxiang organization in the future.
The author is a literary and historical worker, religious researcher
