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| THE INDIGENIZATION PROCESS OF THE EXTERNAL EMIGRATION CULTURE——A Case Study of the Third Line Factories in Southwest |
| DING Yan, WANG Hui |
| Institute of Environment Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China |
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Abstract The immigration initiated by the construction of the third line factories has led to some special cultural transportations and reforms, which now is an important progress of cultural autochthonism of the immigrants. The immigrants of the factory culture are some kind of political immigrants and the structure of the immigrants had to meet the needs of the third line's construction. The characters of the immigration lead to three main traits as following:1)Factory cultures are isolated from other kinds of cultures. Based on the cultural isolation between different factories and the limited communications with the local culture for each third line factory, the factory culture shows the trait of isolation. 2)Factory cultures mean some differences between different factories in the third line area. The main differences depend on the diversities among these factories, which come from the cultural regions of the move-out areas. 3)Factory cultures had some inner-diversities within each factory, too. Because the staffs of the factory come from different cultural regions just as the situations within each factory, it shows a new characteristic. But actually this diversity exists more between different generations and it has a close relationship with the progress of the mergence with the local cultures. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of the factory cultures we can draw a conclusion that the factory cultures are sure to inosculate to the local culture during the progress of culture mergence. Moreover, in the 1990s, new immigrations initiated by the government appear because of special policies and economic situations. Most of the resettlers are local people, which speeds factory cultures becoming indigenous.
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Received: 23 September 2002
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2003, Vol. 18 
