Quotes About Culture

How many lived in the fake versions of their countries, in fake versions of other people's countries? Did their lives feel as unreal to them as his own did to him?

Here in America, where every nationality confirmed its stereo-type

Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?

What was a country but the idea of it?

Mitsi had never eaten a Vienna sausage before, but in the first three days at Camp Harmony, they were served three times.

Southeast Asia has been intimately associated and involved with four of the great universalist cultures and civilizations of the world: India, China, Islam and the West.

Within ASEAN, a culture of peace has evolved as a result of imbibing the Indonesian custom of musyawarah and mufakat (consultation and consensus). Now ASEAN has begun to share this culture of peace with the larger Asia-Pacific region.

No other region in the world can match its cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic diversity. In a relatively small geographical space, we find 240 million Muslims, 130 million Christians, 140 million Buddhists and 7 million Hindus. This range of religious diversity is remarkable in itself. But it actually masks a deeper cultural diversity.

China usually gave much more than it received from these missions, reflecting the court's attitude that its smaller neighbours had little to offer their great nation, and demonstrating Chinese generosity".

Two thousand years of Chinese history have created a strategic culture that advises against fighting unnecessary wars in distant places. The likelihood therefore is that, while China's strategic weight and influence in the world will grow significantly, it will not behave as an aggressive and belligerent military power.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language.

To attract boyfriends, American girls pretend they are women, while Japanese women pretend they are girls.

Kiyohiko Azuma

Behind every downward trend in society lies the church's permission in one form or another.

lo que hace que más de mil millones de personas crucen una frontera cada año—

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions...

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

Agama tidak bisa berkembang tanpa wadah budaya, dan budaya akan kehilangan arah dan ruh tanpa bimbingan agama. Inklusivitas peradaban Islam secara simbolik ditampilkan oleh bangunan masjid. Inti dari masjid adalah aktivitas shalatnya, sedangkan arsitektur dan berbagai peralatan lain yang mendukungnya sangat terbuka untuk inovasi dan menampung beragam unsur budaya dari luar.

Kita memasuki abad ideologi yang berakar pada keimanan, yang berseberangan dengan kebudayaan ilmiah yang dialogis dan rasional," kata Kauffmann. Di tengah dua arus yang menguat ini, mereka yang berpaham moderat didorong untuk berpihak ke salah satu kubu. "Moderate faith is being squeezed by both secularism and fundamentalism," tulisnya.

Elle était libre comme les arbres, comme les vagues du Danube, comme le vent, comme les oiseaux. Elle était Tinka, l'enfant libre d'une race libre, une race qui n'était pas enchaînée par les entrelacs de la civilisation. La seule race qui n'était pas entrée dans le creuset du monde ni devenue un composant de son alliage