The temptation of communitarianism, which the French have debated for at least a decade, comes from the wish to turn the failure of genuine equality into something positive. It offers integration by default within the differentiated space of various communities – a sort of imprisonment by civilization, Sen would say.
法国人至少争论了十年的对于社群主义的向往来自人们把在真正的平等上的失败转换为某种积极的东西的希望，因为它为各个群体存在很大差异的空间提供了一种缺席融合——一种文明所带来的禁闭，Sen会这样说。