Quotes About Culture

Product demonstrations, long used within beauty culture, were embraced by mass marketers, not only to sell specific brands but to acclimate women to systematic cosmetics use .

Even when they proclaimed themselves dupes and victims of consumer culture, women did not renounce makeup, for it had become a common language of self expression and self-understanding.

ethnicity, defined as style could, like makeup, be easily applied and washed off.

In greeting, we Southerners say "hey" not "hi." To alert, draw the attention of, or show objection to another, we also say "hey," but air is expelled and the ending is truncated. This

cultural rituals exist to reinforce the unity of those performing them.

Many of us commit the error of following the rules of our cultural community, which prevents us from stepping out of our caves and sharing our gifts in the world.

Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari's somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

In the one place everyone looks like me--has my name--i am the most foreign.

Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one's ability to make appropriate sense of "what is" and "what occurs" in another's environment is bound to be deficient.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.

They'd call us girls because of the long hair. "How you doing, girls? Dance with me?" Hair… the little things that you wouldn't think about that changed whole cultures. The way they reacted to our looks in certain parts of London then was not much different from the way they reacted to us in the South. "Hello, darling," and all that shit.

was a very important distinction in the '60s. Either you were blues and jazz or you were rock and roll, but rock and roll had died and gone pop—nothing left in it.

If magic is to be defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it.

White culture is not marked by its uniquely creative and enriching social contributions. Rather, it is distinguished by its ability to promote the sanctity of whiteness by devaluing that which is non-White.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

what is needed in Russia is moral reform, and until that happens, Russia will not change.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Countercultural liberties can open pathways to well-being that aren't recognized by mainstream culture—but can also result in a reckless disregard for self and others.