Quotes About Cultural

Alas, to us Jews they are a sad story familiar through centuries of repetition, and it is almost unbelievable that the old martyrdom must be endured in a civilized nation today.

A movement that cannot or will not draw boundaries, or that allows the modern cultural fear of exclusion to set its theological agenda, is doomed to lose its doctrinal identity. Once it does, it will drift from whatever moorings it may have had in historic Christianity.

When I was in junior high school I complained to my mother: Mami, ya no quiero llevar tacos de tortilla de marina con arroz, frijoles y carne para lonche porque we rein Las gringas. (Mami, I don't want to take tacos of flour tortillas with rice, beans and meat for lunch because the white girls make fun of me Tacos were nutritious and made with love, care, and hope had to be replaced with sandwiches of baloney and white bread.

Some women tend naturally to be Warriors and Seekers, and some men to be Caregivers and Lovers in spite of their cultural conditioning. The point is for both to take their journeys in such a way as to find their own way to be male or female, and eventually to achieve a positive kind of androgyny, which is not at all about unisex, neutered behavior, but is about gaining the gifts both gender energies and experiences have to offer us.

To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire', 'fundamentalist' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why 'they' are not like 'us', to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of 'what went wrong?

Being Danish, all you have is your supple grip and your light touch. There are plenty of places in the world where the guest who extends a weaponless hand is the most welcome. A man from a small and weak country is as good as stateless. Just wave your Danish flag. They won't see a white cross against a red background as a crusading banner; they'll just see it as a white cloth. So wrap yourself in its innocence, lao-yeh .

I wondered why Westerners were so enthralled with a religious activity that didn't incite much enthusiasm even among its own people in India.

Chicanos never say congratulations when people do well. "I got a job over at the hospital." "'S about time." Do we say good luck? No, we say, "Don't fuck it up like last time." Or, "So now you think you're all bad, or what?" Go to the Hallmark store and look for that card. "Do you have a Now-You-Think-You're-All-Bad card?"

Go tell it to the white men! They're lookin' for Indians that stay proud even when they hurt... just so long's they don't ask for their rights!" (113)

Our cultural interpretations, our scientific and psychosocial beliefs and points of view, should be open to growth and change. Our viewpoints are not designed to be coveted. They are not property to be defended and maintained. They are only interpretations, mediators of our experience.

cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

have you heard about the young Hindu virgin from Kutch, who kept two tame snakes in her crutch, she said when they wriggle, it's a bit of a giggle, but my boyfriends don't like my crutch much. Ha ha ha!' 'Really, captain!' said Mother, outraged, 'I do wish you wouldn't recite poetry in front of Gerry.

In contrast to the traditional idea of creative discovery as great leaps into the unknown by the 'man of genius' - the exploration of the adjacent possible by diverse perspectives can explain autocatalytic innovation within the context of cultural learning and conformity. The growth of diversity is self-accelerating because the size of the possible exponentially increases with the dimensions of the attributes being tinkered with.

Attitudinal Healing is not a religion or religious. It is a practical spirituality that supports and is compatible with all faiths and belief systems. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith at all, are welcome to use the principles of Attitudinal Healing.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls would never dream of doing - like showering.

He didn't even know what it was, Vishous." "The tux?" V lit a hand-rolled. "Of course he didn't. He's a real male.

Without 'Twin Peaks,' there would have been no 'Northern Exposure,' 'Picket Fences,' 'X-Files' or 'Alias.' It started the movement of 'off-center' television.

Indian filmmakers sometimes twist the details and the mood of the film to give it the Indian masala flavor. This tod-marod in films is a rather big impediment.

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

Gujaratis, all the South Indians, Bengalis or sometimes even Punjabis - when it comes to mainstream storytelling, most of the time they are all typecast.

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

My father was up against so many different types of resistance. His whole life was an interplay of East and West. He was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, which was under British rule then.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.