广东是令人瞩目的。不说它的经济发展如何迅速,社会变化如何剧烈,就是二者的变迁连带而出的文化论说,已足以让人费尽思量。当广东开始它的经济改革试验时,便有人认为广东的文化领域日益“沙漠化”,从而给广东经济发展所需要的文化现代变迁以巨大的压力。另一方面,广东人自己也为外部的不利评价所激动,急于为自己的社会实验进行文化辨护,形成了一种给人以弱者印象的自辩心态。一当广东的改革取得了令人惊喜的成就时,又有人认为广东改革 Guangdong is remarkable. Not to mention how rapid its economic development and how the social changes are drastic are the cultural arguments that come with the changes of the two, which are enough to make people think throughly. When Guangdong began its experiment in economic reform, some people think that the cultural field of Guangdong is increasingly “desertified”, putting tremendous pressure on the modern cultural changes that Guangdong needs in its economic development. On the other hand, the Cantonese themselves were also excited by unfavorable external evaluations, anxious to carry out cultural discrimination for their own social experiments, and formed a kind of self-defense mentality that gave the impression of being weak. When the reform of Guangdong made amazing achievements, others thought that the reform in Guangdong