Quotes About Culture

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark's top 20 surnames ends in '-sen,' meaning 'son of,' a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that.

When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.

I came to South Korea with a feeling of deep kinship, but people here perceive me only as a talbukja, someone of a different nationality.

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone.

I'm a southern gentleman.

I'm Southern to the bone.

In the Concrete Jungle, there's definitely no Southern hospitality.

That first year I was in Ring of Honor, maybe it wasn't even a year, I was wearing the trucker hat thing and wearing John Deere stuff because I felt like part of what made me different from a lot of guys was that I was kind of a good ol' boy and a southern type of guy.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'

Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

The Southern hospitality is almost the same as the love and the kindness that they show back at home.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.