Quotes About Culture

At times, she felt that she was involved in an elaborate peasant dance, which had not been entirely explained to her. Now the hand is held; now the heel is stamped; now the head turns; and then the kiss.

Making whiteness American culture, the nation has forgone other possibilities. The hybridity that could have been our greatest strength has been made into a means of playing across the color line, with its rotting distance of voyeurism and partisanship, a confirmation of social and psychological division.

blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it.

Did you know the peach symbolizes longevity?

ACTUALLY, in many senses there is no "Muslim world" at all, but rather many Muslim worlds, or many Muslim countries and different kinds of Muslims.

Take Islam out of the equation, and there's a very good chance you'd still find the Middle East at loggerheads with the West.

tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, I never quite understand why English people like teas so.

On pouvait être a court de nourriture dans le pays, il y avait toujours de la couleur.

She had a lot to learn, in the way of books and music and how to dress and talk, but she would never have to learn humanity.

quatre cent vingt et un

You know, Pyle, women don't want virgins. I'm not sure we do, unless we are a pathological type.

en Orient, on ne gronde pas les enfants.

Graham Greene

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de

He will not stoop to the mediaeval superstition of 'Good-bye'.

the Karens of Burma

Despite the wanton destruction during the past 200 years, some outstanding sites have been saved in Louisiana,1 Mississippi,2 Alabama,3 Tennessee,4 Illinois,5 and Ohio,6 and there are also significant sites in Florida,7 Georgia,8 Texas,9 Arkansas,10 Kentucky,11 and Indiana.

We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand the ancient world?

the evidence suggested that the Incas had often functioned as the restorers of these structures rather than their original builders.

Egyptologic"—i.e. that special form of reasoning, with a built-in double standard, deployed only by Egyptologists.

No pyramids of comparable quality were ever built again.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads through the holy places. Do all this and watch the people decline. Without souls, they soon die, leaving dead shells, zombie cultures, shambling aimlessly towards oblivion.

Southern women don't show their pain to anybody. They aren't raised that way. But they feel it.