Quotes About Culture

I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.

The chief rule of British Society: Sleep where you like, but be in your own bed by morning.

Fiancé. Americans had simply adopted a pronunciation from the French to sugarcoat the sticky implication of the word: Constrained. Bound. Trapped.

People have always loved a love story. But for most of the past our ancestors did not try to live in one.

The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this without threatening the marriage. In a study of 109 societies, anthropologists found that only 48 forbade extramarital sex to both husbands and wives.27

One missionary warned a Naskapi man that if he did not impose tighter controls on his wife, he would never know for sure which of the children she bore belonged to him. The Indian was equally shocked that this mattered to Europeans. "You French people," he replied, "love only your own children; but we love all the children of our tribe."17

This is what we Mexicans do:we take what exists and we make it our own.

the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture is that centuries ago, we were handed the role of sacrificing and suffering for the benefit of the entire society—and we're still doing it.

We'll make leadplant tea instead of coffe.Just tell them it's imported." Jesse whispered. "Mama,you taught me never to lie," LisBeth chided. "Well,it is imported-from the prairie!

At first when you're learning a foreign language, what seems strange is that a different set of words exists for the things you know. But then, after a while, what seems strange is that so many words are the same, that two entirely different peoples, an ocean apart, would choose the exact same sounds. In the end, what causes the most trouble are the words that sound the same but mean different things: déception, nostalgie, grâce.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.