Research of the Identity of European Cultures, and Ethnic Awareness

这项研究旨在澄清欧洲文化的身份和种族意识之间的关系，在欧洲国家的具体重点与历史和当今欧洲的多语言和多方面的动态情况。我们的研究对象包括：（1）历史上以古希腊罗马文明、哈布斯堡帝国和当今比利时为例的文化冲突和融合;（2）受过教育的人实际上跨越国家边界的文化跨国运动。由于我们的学术领域涵盖了古希腊、罗马帝国、法国、比利时、德国、奥地利、英国、东欧和俄罗斯，我们采取了一种确证的方法，这是一种跨学科、跨国家的研究方法，通过这种方法可以深入到具体的文化问题，突出欧洲特有的文化现象。因此，我们呈现了一幅有趣的画面，是什么塑造了今天的欧洲文化，这些文化似乎是随机的多元，但不知何故彼此如此相互关联。这一课题的意义还在于，这种起源可以说是共同的，但在历史上却有着鲜明的个体化特征的文化间的认同模式，可以为面临“国际化”浪潮的日本社会提供启示。我们相信，我们的研究结果可以被分享和利用，欧洲在众多变量中寻求同一性的经验对当今日本是有益的借鉴。这也是我们的荣幸，这项研究催生了下面列出的许多书籍和研究论文。

This research aimed for the clarification of the relationship between the identity of European cultures and racial awareness in the European nations with a specific focus on the dynamic situations concerning with multi-lingual and multi-dimensional aspects of historical and present-day Europe. Our research target consisted of (1) the cultural conflicts and fusions historically evidenced in the examples of Ancient Greco-Roman civilizations, Habsburg Empires, and present day Belgium, (2) the cultural trans-national movements of the educated people who actually crossed the borders of the nations. By so doing, we have clarified the dynamic mechanism of the way a certain degree of universal values was generated through the interactions between neighboring cultures in this multi-lingual and multi-faceted region of Europe.As our academic fields cover from ancient Greece, Roman empires, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, U.K, East Europe and Russia, we took a corroborative approach, which was both inter-disciplinary and trans-national, by which to going deep into the specific cultural issues and highlight a phenomenon unique to Europe. As a result, we presented an interesting picture of what shaped the European cultures as they are today, which seem to be randomly plural but somehow so interrelated with each other's. This task would have been otherwise difficult by a simple accumulation of individual researches.It is also significant in that this model of the identity making among various cultures, whose origins were arguably shared but historically sharply individualized, can shed a light on the present society of Japan, which faces the waves of "internationalization". We are sure our results could be so shared and utilized that the European experiences in seeking the identity among a lot of variables be a beneficial reference to the present day Japan. It is our pleasure, too, this research spawned so many books and research papers listed below.