Quotes About Cultural

although racists voted for Trump, the majority of Trump voters are not racist. They are people who feel threatened by their country's rapid economic, technological, ethnic and cultural change. This is why older white men supported Trump: they were trying to preserve their world, a world they saw disappearing day by day, where immigration was the most visible sign that their neighbours were no longer who they used to be.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

You know what you have to do to win an Oscar these days? Play a character who's lost an arm, or a leg, or a mother, or a father, or preferably all of the above. Make it miserable and squalid and base, so people will cry their eyes out and call you a genius, but if you inspire people or make them laugh? You're not even under consideration when awards season rolls around. I'm sick of this cultural hegemony of depression.

Other countries pass laws requiring that their movie theaters, television networks, and radio stations have to play a certain percentage of homegrown entertainment. Because if they didn't, Hollywood would wipe it all out. We're not a world leader because we have nuclear missiles and submarines. We are because we have Bugs Bunny and Friends. Our planet is what Hollywood has made it.

He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans - a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.

Os ucranianos não são como os russos: são um tipo de eslavo diferente. E embora na sua maioria falem e leiam russo, a sua língua é diferente e autónoma, mais parecida com as línguas eslavas do Sul do que com o Russo. Muitas palavras ucranianas, em particular palavras relativas ao mundo rural, são as mesmas que em húngaro, e muitas das suas palavras são mais parecidas com o checo do que com o russo.

Foo Kyu' is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence. Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.'

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

A guy like Franz could talk smack all day about my Afro, my lack of brains, my mother, her alleged lack of virtue.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer...Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?