Quotes About Cultural

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

It is recorded that Tipu made all his troops, Hindu and Muslim, take ritual baths in holy rivers 'by the advice of his [Brahmin] augurs' in order to wash away cowardice and make them superior in battle to the Marathas. Tipu also strongly believed in the supernatural powers of holy men, both Hindu and Muslim. As he wrote in 1793 to the Swami of Sringeri: 'You are the Jagatguru

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