Quotes About Culture

Is heaven also made in Taiwan? And does Jesus really know how to speak Samoan?

Of all the women in the world the Parisian woman is the best to look at. When one knows her one discovers that she is not quite so different from other women as one would suppose from the way that she does her hair.

Underneath every simple, obvious story about 'human error,' there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization.

People do not come to work to do a bad job. Safety in complex systems is not a result of getting rid of people, of reducing their degrees of freedom. Safety in complex systems is created by people through practice—at all levels of an organization.

A just culture accepts nobody's account as "true" or "right" and others wrong.

Creating a climate in which disclosure is possible and acceptable is the organization's responsibility.

The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is responsible for things going wrong. What is the set of engineered and organized circumstances that is responsible for putting people in a position where they end up doing things that go wrong?

They knew that they were there in the Bahamas because their forefathers had been captured and put on ships and transported to a different part of the world. They knew that those ancestors had a history and a culture, and they talked about that history and culture. Through oral history, they retained some of the fragments of who their great-great-grandfathers were, and probably even some surviving words of their language. They

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man...it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

A culture which leaves unsatisfied and drives to rebelliousness so large a number of its members neither has a prospect of continued existence nor deserves it.

The Acadians may not have been literate, but they were neither uncultured nor unsophisticated.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

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Los barriletes son juegos de varones. — Los juguetes no tienen sexo.

People can't put on an opera, but they can write a poem. It's accessible art.

We all value social relationships, but are there differences in what each sex values about other people? Women tend to value the development of altruistic, reciprocal relationships. Such relationships require good empathizing skills. In contrast, men tend to value power, politics, and competition. This pattern is found across widely different cultures and historical periods, and is even found among chimpanzees.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Although they were hardened and seasoned individual fighters—every male baby born in Afghanistan seems to be given an AK before he gets a rattle—they

For fans, whose musical values don't matter so much, or, rather, matter in different ways, with different consequences, trading pop judgments is a way to "flirt and fight.

Rock is a commercially made mass music and this must be the starting point for its celebration as well as for its dismissal.