跨文化研究并不是一个学科,而是一种思想方法,一种关注他者智慧的思想方法。他者的意义不在印证自我的那一面,而在自我无法理解的那一面。后殖民主义理论对西方现代性知识体系,既是摧毁性的,也是建设性的。摧毁性表现在普遍怀疑主义的解构性批判上,建设性则表现在西方文化自身包容对立面的辩证的开放性上。跨文化研究在西方文化传统内批 Cross-cultural research is not a discipline, but a way of thinking, a way of thinking about the wisdom of the Other. The meaning of the Other is not on the side that affirms itself, but on the one that the ego can not understand. The theory of post-colonialism is both destructive and constructive to the Western system of knowledge of modernity. Destructive Performance On the deconstructionist critique of universal skepticism, constructiveness is manifested in the dialectical openness of the opposites of Western culture itself. Intercultural research is within the Western cultural tradition