Quotes About Culture

So acts every 'man-in-the-street' in our own society, so has acted the average member of any society through the past ages, and so acts the present-day savage; and the lower his level of cultural development, the greater stickler he will be for good manners, propriety and form, and the more incomprehensive and odious to him will be the non-conforming point of view.

Czarne ma?py udaj?ce Europejczyków w tramie daj? mi poczucie wy?szo?ci rasy bia?ej.

The final goal of which an ethnographer should never lose sight…is, briefly, to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world

If we insist that war is a fight between two independent and politically organized groups, war does not occur at the primitive level.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

To this day, references are made to the Trench Coat Mafia; I even heard the term used on the HBO show Six Feet Under not too long ago.

One reason Muslims are so angry at the West is because seven-eighths of the Muslim world was occupied and ruled by "Christian" nations until the end of World War II. I

The Beatles were a force of nature, and their impact on music and popular culture can still be felt today. They were more than just a band -- they were a way of life.

The Pacific Northwest boasts a long and honorable tradition of rain-soaked misery.

We no longer have death in our culture: the dead become abstractions, statistics, companies will take charge of the relationship that we can have to our own dead. In 2, 3 days the cremation is done, we can forget, the question is settled and the dead is only a memory. This is problematic, because we risk falling first into what Freud calls melancholy, that is to say the impossibility of mourning because we no longer have an object to mourn.

The world is full of questions. Whether the topic is politics, race, relationships, the environment, or religion (especially religion), there seem to be more questions than answers.

Say this much for big league baseball — it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Music', said Arkady, 'is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?

The Bushmen, who walk distances across the Kalahari, have no idea of the soul's survival in another world. 'When we die, we die,' they say. 'The wind blows away our foot prints, and that is the end of us.' Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians – with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds – project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.

What money is to the son of the west, marriage is to the Korean:

Like people who learn a foreign language later in life, Virginia and Laura will never speak the language of love without an accent.

In fact, some theories of language development suggest that humans learned to dance and sing before we could talk, that music was actually the first human language.

Our ancestors recognized the importance of connectedness and the toxicity of exclusion. The history of the "civilized" world, on the other hand, is filled with policies and practices that favored disconnection and marginalization—that destroyed family, community, and culture.

human beings have been human beings—in this genetic form—for about 250,000 years. And for 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in hunter-gatherer bands of relatively small multifamily groups.

And this is why you can't be in a corporation and address these issues by simply having everyone go to an anti-racism course or cultural-sensitivity training. You don't get trained in cultural sensitivity—you go spend time immersed in the culture, spend time with other people.

your history of relational health-your connectedness to family, community, and culture-is more predictive of your mental health than your history of adversity