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New Perspectives on Development
Edited by William Ascher and John M. Heffron
Prepared under the auspices of the Pacific Basin
Research Center, Soka University of America
Palgrave
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cultural change and persistence
Copyright © William Ascher and John M. Heffron, 2010.
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Cultural change and persistence : new perspectives on development / edited by
William Ascher and John M. Heffron.
p. cm.
1. Social change. 2. Cultural diffusion. 3. Economic development—Social
aspects. I. Ascher, William. II. Heffron, John M.
GN358.C84 2010
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To the memory of our fathers, Meyer S. Ascher and John L. Heffron,
who instilled in their children the qualities of curiosity, imagination,
and respect for life that sustain this work.
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List of Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
1 Rethinking Culture and Development:
Patterns of Change and Persistence 1
William Ascher and John M. Heffron
2 Normative Considerations in Promoting
Cultural Preservation or Change 25
William Ascher
3 “Old Times There Are Not Forgotten”:
Southern Traditionalism and American National Development 43
John M. Heffron
4 Nationalism and the Politics of Language:
Analogies from Europe for the Pacific Basin 67
John Christian Laursen
5 Are Cultural Tensions “Cultural”? Public Responses to Chinese,
Korean, and Vietnamese Migration in the Russian Far East 81
Mikhail Alexseev
6 Cultural Transition and Village Discourse
in Twentieth-Century China 113
Huaiyin Li
7 How Our Village Becomes “Ecocultural”: Change, Resilience,
and Social Capital in Southwest China Minority Communities 133
Zhou Yongming
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8 “The Ramlila Project”: Indian Identities in an Age of Globalization 147
Nita Kumar
9 Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural: Arts and
Identity at the Turn of the Millennium 169
Carrie C. Chorba
10 Global Citizenship, Cultural Change, and Education
Policy in Japan and New Zealand 183
Lynne Parmenter
11 Culture and Law on the Durand Line: Continuity and Change 203
Charles H. Norchi
12 Conclusions: Intertwining Cultural
Adaptation and Economic Development 233
William Ascher and John M. Heffron
Index 245
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5.1 Factor analysis of cultural distinctiveness and support for
migration policy regarding Chechen, Chinese, Korean,
and Vietnamese migrants in Primorskii Krai 88
5.2 Quasi-experimental design of the analysis
of migration policy preferences in Russia 102
5.3 Two models of cultural opposition to globalization 106
9.1 Salvador Carrasco’s escaping Topiltzin 174
9.2 Salvador Carrasco’s Topiltzin and the Virgin Mary 175
9.3 Salvador Carrasco’s death of Topiltzin 176
9.4 Gonzalo Rocha González’s “Joer” 177
9.5 Gonzalo Rocha González’s “Evangelizing with Dollar” 178
9.6 Gonzalo Rocha González’s “I Want You” 179
9.7 Manuel Ahumada’s “TLC” 180
9.8 Manuel Ahumada’s “Gunboat” 181
11.1 The Durand Line, its geo-strategic importance
by Dr. Azmat Hayat Khan 204
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2.1 Potential negative consequences 30
2.2 Potential positive consequences 31
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5.1 Support for exclusion/inclusion of migrants by ethnic Slavs in
Primorskii Krai 86
5.2 Perceived cultural distinctiveness between ethnic Slavs and
select migrant minorities in the Primorskii Krai 87
5.3 Perceived security threat of non-Slav groups 89
5.4 Attitudes toward Chechen and Chinese migrants in Russia’s
provinces: Support for exclusionism, assessment of cultural
distinctiveness, and perceived threat to Russia’s security 93
5.5 Rankings of threats 94
5.6 Perceptions and attitudes toward various ethnicities 96
5.7 Preferences regarding status of migrants 99
5.8 Socioeconomic conditions and ethnic demographics
in survey provinces 104
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Soka University of America (SUA) is dedicated to peaceful, humanistic devel-
opment. An important aspect of this is the preservation of cherished cultural
beliefs and practices in the face of changes wrought by development. With this
in mind, SUA’s Pacific Basin Research Center (PBRC) commissioned a broad
range of essays on how societies have grappled with the challenge of fostering
both development and culture to enhance human dignity. These essays do not
presume that beliefs and practices are necessarily desirable just because they are
embedded within an existing culture, but rather they address the dilemmas of
preserving or innovating cultural aspects to provide for the expansion of broadly
shared material and nonmaterial benefits. As the sustainability of the multiple
aspects of development becomes the principal focus of development, the ques-
tion of culture and its role in the change process becomes critical. This book is
an effort to provide a broad empirical basis for such a conversation.
The editors wish to thank the university’s founder and the founder of the
PBRC, Daisaku Ikeda, as well as the administration of the university from the
president, Daniel Y. Habuki, on down for their generous support and encour-
agement over the rich but brief (15-year) life of the center.
