Quotes About Culture

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.

I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you're too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.

Delhi is a Punjabi city and everyone has relations in Punjab.

The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

Bollywood, as an industry, is based on relationships. It has always been star-driven, and it has an element of feudalism.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.

Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman.

While there are relatively few extreme introverts or extroverts, most of us lean in one direction or the other. If we lean more toward introversion, we'll generally prefer less social activity than more extroverted people. One inclination is not 'better' than another, but our culture can make it seem as if extroverts have a social advantage.

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.