Quotes About Cultural

Era difícil não comparar aquela região com a Mongólia. Assim como os pastores mongóis, as tribos de peles-vermelhas das Grandes Planícies tinham sido nómadas, vivendo em tendas e seguindo as manadas de búfalos para encontrar pastagens para os seus animais. A única diferença era que esse estilo de vida ainda existe na Mongólia enquanto que aqui os brancos tinham impedido os índios de o fazer.

Primeiro, uma noite passada no meio de gente armada a beber vodka e, agora, pelos vistos, eu era a primeira pessoa a entrar na antiga União Soviética a fazer acrobacias numa mota. Viva a Rússia!

Why does he choose to invent a literary form rather than use a culturally familiar one? This will be discussed at the outset under "ideology of genre" (below, 3, B).

Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.

I don't think I've ever met any Mexicans before." "They're tyrants, and imperialists, every last one of them." If he'd been holding any more tobacco in his lip, he no doubt would've used it to chase the sentence out of his mouth. "And I guess you've talked to every last one of them, to be so sure of that.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

The idea that culture can be viewed as a form of inheritance goes back to Charles Darwin, who sometimes did not clearly distinguish between what we now recognize as genetic and cultural inheritances.62

She looked down at her hands. "He said I couldn't marry you. Not only because of that but because you're—you're half Indian!" "An' just

If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds to feed on. But Christians are being truncated and deformed by the fact that men and women have to leap about from one tradition of discourse to another as they move in thought and discussion from moral matters to political matters, from ecclesiastical matters, to cultural matters.

cultural traditions are instructions for living: when we violate them, for instance by not having a Christmas tree or by serving pie at a birthday party, it can feel somehow wrong.

English arrived, they bastardized the name to Key West.

This is a medical issue, but mostly it's a cultural issue. It's a social issue and an emotional issue and a family dynamic issue and a community issue.

This is a medical issue, but mostly it's a cultural issue. It's a social issue and an emotional issue and a family dynamic issue and a community issue. Maybe we need to medically intervene so Poppy doesn't grow a beard. Or maybe the world needs to learn to love a person with a beard who goes by "she" and wears a skirt.

We don't want you here living with us. You are white, and we do not trust you. You must take your family and go." I could hear the sudden intake of breath. every head in the crowd swiveled, first to the Nkosi, and then to me. I suddenly felt tired. This is what it had all come to;in South Africa, when logic shrivels, the same dreary dinosaurs rear their vicious heads.

the symbolic dimensions of disaster and recovery cannot be separated from political history. Even as buildings and memorials become the touchstones of memory and identity, they are also implicated in larger social, cultural, and political processes.

Spiritual and cultural strength is measured not by rigidity or power, but by the vitality and flexibility of the response.

SE PODEMOS ENTENDER "PIRATARIA" como o uso de propriedade intelectual dos outros sem permissão mesmo que o princípio "se tem valor, tem direito" estiver correto então a história da indústria cultural é uma história de pirataria. Todos os setores importantes da "grande mídia" da atualidade filmes, música, rádio e TV à cabo nasceram de um tipo de pirataria bem definida.

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456

He remembered the PM saying that every Russian is at heart a chess-player, and every American at heart a public-relations man. Well, Bret Rensselaer's zeal did nothing to disprove that one. The sheer audacity of the scheme plus Bret's enthusiasm was enough to persuade him that it was worth a try. Bret nodded to acknowledge the compliment.

There seems to be little cultural difference in this. The face of horror in childhood is grave and relatively immobile. It may look dazed, but it rarely looks hysterical.

Traditionally the strongest weapon that a Chinese woman had was suicide.

Yiddish is the Robin Hood of languages. It steals from the linguistically rich to give to the fledgling poor. It shows not the slightest hesitation in taking in house-guests—to whom it gives free room and board regardless of genealogy, faith, or exoticism. A memorable remark by a journalist, Charles Rappaport, runs: "I speak ten languages—all of them in Yiddish.

A Gallup survey in 1962 indicated that only about one-third of American women considered themselves victims of discrimination. Eight years later the proportion had risen to a half, and by 1974 to two-thirds. By any standard these were striking measures of social and cultural change.18