Quotes About Culture

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Ist der Pharao ein Gott, weil die Ägypter ihn als Gott verehren? Für sie mag er einer sein. Für euch nicht. Göttlichkeit liegt allein im Auge des Betrachters.

Heritage - be proud of it for you will be its legacy. It's your responsibility to carry on and learn your heritage. Otherwise, it will be lost.

Chinese dragons are considered benevolent, much like ruler to subject, as long as the people were loyal to them. This is a Confucius principle. Japanese dragons, however, were believed to kill innocent people to force villages to give their maidens to them as food. - Kailin Gow On the Dragon King in Amazon Lee Adventures in China (Discussion Question)

With a Masters in Management from USC, I did some consultant work in Reorganization, New Products, and Change. Amazon was smart to have me as a Beta and got my advice for free. Amazon was the only company who did because for other companies, it wasn't. But what I got from Amazon is a good understanding of how they operate, the culture, and the people behind the business - Strong by Kailin Gow

Fairies or Fae or Fey are Magical Creatures entrenched into the folklore of Chinese Culture as old as the Dragon.

Dragons are integral to the Chinese Culture. The First Emperor of China is known as the Dragon King, and the people are known as Descendants of Dragons. - Kailin Gow, Amazon Lee Adventures in China: Tomb of the Dragon King.

the method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.

You may laugh at us for having "too much tea," but may we not suspect that you of the West have "no tea" in your constitution?

Why not amuse yourselves at our expense? Asia returns the compliment.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily routine are as much a commentary of racial ideals as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation. The afternoon tea is now an important function in Western society.

En percevant l'usage subtil de l'inutile, il est entré dans le royaume de l'art.

There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation.

Tea began as medicine and grew into a beverage.

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation.

It needed the genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and lead to its final idealization.

Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

How do you eat your roots?

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.