Quotes About Culture

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I love everything Minnesota.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

People don't realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand everybody else. All my life, I've known American culture very well. I probably know American literature more than the average American.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.

I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent. We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

Most of my friends were white. I grew up really the only minority in my school, along with my sister.

India is a land of minorities. Everyone belongs to some minority.

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

1963 when President Diêm passed a law prohibiting his people from celebrating the Buddhist national holiday, many Vietnamese have understandably associated Christianity with foreign attempts to establish political and cultural domination.

One cannot become a practitioner of Zen just by imitating the way of eating, sitting, or dressing of Chinese or Japanese practitioners. Zen is life, Zen does not imitate. If Zen is to fully take root in the West, it must acquire a Western form, different from Oriental Zen.

Signlessness is not just an idea. When we look deeply into our children, we see all the elements that have produced them. They are the way they are because our culture, economy, society, and we ourselves are the way we are. We can't simply blame our children when things go wrong. Many causes and conditions have contributed. When we know how to transform ourselves and our society