Quotes About Culture

Fear has played a central strategic role in the Republican Party since at least World War II. It was Communism in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It was crime in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was the fear of terrorism in the George W. Bush years. It was integration and immigration—people we do not know, religion we do not understand, and cultures we find alien—through much of our history.

Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.

In other words, woman's consciousness- her membership, as it were, in culture - is evidence in part by the very fact that she accepts her own devaluation and takes culture's point of view.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

The Holy Bible. Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, otherwise known as the First Folio.

Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?' 'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.

His misfortune is that he was born fun-loving into a tribe that doesn't understand fun.

We are shaped by our tools.

Our new media are well suited for accomplishing the rudimentary. And because this is what technology serves up, we reduce our expectations of each other.

In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online?

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

During cocktails, Octavio Paz walked up to me with a champagne glass in hand and said, "Vous avez les seins très beaux

A classical view of people as "rational animals" gave way to a new idea, people as "emotional machines.

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation.

every society shapes the therapies it can use.

Japanese tea ceremony

In the United States, normal arose within a cultural context as the nation sought to control a growing urban population and Americanize immigrants from around the world. Normalcy, though, is first and foremost an idea that arises from statistics. The normal, norm, or normalcy do not exist in the real world of real people [emphasis mine], despite the fact that we are told that we can modify our behavior and train our bodies and minds to reach it.

We avoid pain because we live in a culture that teaches us to avoid pain. We avoid pain because we don't know that turning toward pain — and I use pain as an umbrella term for anything uncomfortable that we wish to avoid feeling — is one of the secret pathways to joy.

In 2015, nearly one hundred Canadian, Dutch, Irish, German, and English citizens came to America to adopt black children. Whatever forms of othering may be going on in their countries, they are not infected with American anti-black bias that coursed from Virginia's legal codes in the seventeenth century through the supremacist regimes of later ages to the subconscious of far too many Americans in the twenty-first.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Video games are bad for? That's what they said about rock'n'roll.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.