任碧莲是20世纪90年代以来的新生代华裔作家群中较有影响的一位。其短篇小说《谁是爱尔兰人》体现了她一贯的文化观:对美国主流话语中的“大熔炉”理论模式的挑战,并主张建立一种美国“色拉碗”式的多元文化。也就是说,在美国社会的多元文化语境中,每种文化都有发展和变革的必要,各种文化之间的交流和文化身份的流变也应是必然趋势。 Ren Bilian is one of the more influential writers of Cenozoic Chinese writers since the 1990s. Her short story “Who is Irish” embodies her consistent cultural outlook: challenged the “melting pot” theoretical model in the mainstream discourse of the United States and advocated the establishment of a “multicultural” American salad bowl . In other words, in the multicultural context of American society, every culture has the necessity of development and change. The exchange among different cultures and the change of cultural identity should also be the inevitable trend.