Quotes About Cultural exchange

La lingua dell'Europa è la traduzione / The language of Europe is translation / Die Sprache Europas ist die Übersetzung.

We exchanged greetings, and in the African way we could make that take time.

Actually, we owe a great deal to those British officers and men and scholars who went deep into our literature, to translate the texts which the brahmins didn't want known outside their own coterie.

Here we are, representatives of the three greatest Caucasian people: a Georgian, a Mohammedan, an Armenian. Born under the same sky, by the same earth, different and yet the same, like God's Trinity. European, and yet Asiatic, receiving from the East and West, and giving to both.

Wie wird das eigentlich mit der Sprache?" fragte die Prinzessin, als wir im Zug nach Helsingör saßen. "Du warst doch schon mal da. Sprichst du denn nun gut schwedisch?" »Ich mache das so«, sagte ich. »Erst spreche ich deutsch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, englisch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, platt - und wenn das nichts hilft, dann hänge ich an die deutschen Wörter die Endung as an, und dieses Sprech-as verstehas sie ganz gut.«

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

We have eaten theology with you, will you now eat theology with us?

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

One can always benefit from the culinary knowledge of others.

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?" And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?

The soul of innovation thrives on cross-cultural inspiration. If we are restricted to our lanes, culture will die.

Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of the Mongols.

They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China.

on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.

Rabban Bar Sawma

Jack Weatherford

The Europeans, who had been cut off from the mainstream of civilization since the fall of Rome, eagerly drank in the new knowledge, put on the new clothes, listened to the new music, ate the new foods, and enjoyed a rapidly escalating standard of living in almost every regard.

The Mongols made no technological breakthroughs, founded no new religions, wrote few books or dramas, and gave the world no new crops or methods of agriculture. Their own craftsmen could not weave cloth, cast metal, make pottery, or even bake bread. They manufactured neither porcelain nor pottery, painted no pictures, and built no buildings. Yet, as their army conquered culture after culture, they collected and passed all of these skills from one civilization to the next.

especially the Japanese and Russian

The Aleutian word for Great Land was Alaxsxaq, and when Europeans reached the Aleutian Islands, their first stopping point in this portion of the arctic, and asked the people what name the lands hereabout had, they replied "Alaxsxaq," and in the European tongues this became Alaska.

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o'clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.