Quotes About Culture

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.

Sometimes I'm in Boston or Washington or Chicago and think I'm in Jamaica because I hear more reggae on the radio in these places than in Kingston!

Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.

A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.

Reggae is not music I know inside-out.

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

In North Korean culture, love is a shameful thing and nobody talked about it in public. The regime was not interested in human desires and love stories were banned.

We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

Hyderabad is a truly pan-Telugu metropolis that has come to accept the mix of Telangana's dakhni culture and the coastal region's Andhra culture.

The good thing about the audience in Karnataka is we watch films in all languages from every region.

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.