Quotes About Cultural exchange

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that's what India brought to the Caribbean.

I lived in Cyprus for six years where I learnt all about flatbreads.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.

I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!'

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

A lot of shows take place here and people of Dubai are very good listeners too. Definitely a lot of talent comes here and a lot happens here which is very encouraging for artists.

In the '80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you wouldn't know the talented musicians who lived around the corner from you.

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.

My English might not be good enough to talk politics but there is no difficulty if we are talking about football.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

One of the best highlights of my Harvard business program I attended was I had 60 students in my class. I was the tallest, of course, but looking at the students, 30 of them were American and 30 of them were from all over the world.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

People educate each other through the mediation of the world.

The Renaissance idea of individualism never penetrated Africa like it did Europe and America. The African model of leadership is better expressed as ubuntu, the idea that people are empowered by other people, that we become our best selves through unselfish interaction with others.

A FAMOUS SWORD SWALLOWER FROM AFGHANISTAN WHO IS NOW TEACHING ME TO EAT MY WORDS (WHAT YOU DO IS YOU TAKE THE S OFF THE BEGINNING OF THE SWORD AND PUT IT ON THE END BEFORE YOU SWALLOW IT).

An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language.

Perhaps one of the greatest jokes of my life is that I first went to India to be spiritualized, and I came home humanized.