Quotes About Culture

Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk. What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad, Eve decided.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.   —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

Both men refer to Carly Fisher as a girl—a small thing, maybe, but it shows an innate lack of respect for females in the workplace.

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Es ist nicht die Sprache, die den Menschen zum Menschen macht, sondern die Sprache der anderen.

In der gegenwärtigen 'Kultur' geben sich wenige die Mühe, zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und dem Vorspielen von Aufrichtigkeit zu unterscheiden - ja, wenige sind zu dieser Unterscheidung überhaupt in der Lage -, wie auch nur wenige zwischen religiösem Glauben und dem Einhalten religiöser Vorschriften unterscheiden.

Besonders rätselhaft ist die Frage, in welchem historischen Zeitalter wir leben: in einem puritanischen oder einem freizügigen. ....Einerseits haben Eltern nichts dagegen einzuwenden, wenn ihre sechzehnjährige Tochter einen Jungen zum Übernachten mit nach Hause bringt. Vielleicht bieten sie sogar den beiden am nächsten Morgen Frühstück an. Andererseits wird ein Erwachsener, der am Strand ein Foto von einem Kind im Badeanzug macht, ins Gefängnis gesteckt.

As for your Spanish, don't worry, persist. One day it will cease to feel like a language, it will become the way things are.

The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. That is how it looks from Melbourne, Victoria; and she would not be surprised if the same were the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

Ilga viešnag? nepadeda draugystei.

Valgymas yra ritualas, o ritualai lengvina gyvenimÄ….

Qué le da derecho a sentir asco por los tópicos cuando el resto del mundo los acepta y vive de acuerdo con ellos?

You are perfect for a female. Not where I come from. Then they're using the wrong standard.

This place is just too frickin precious, the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup to match. Give me rednecks and home-grown beer any day of the week over this X-culture bullshit.

Traditional laws and cultural norms are flimsy mantles of power and influence. Democracy, however, when it is truly exercised, is a stone fortress that cannot be surmounted, blown asunder, or burrowed under.

Ivie lowered her coffee cup onto its saucer. "You would do that? I mean, Silas, seriously, these are not your peeps. My dad has tattoos and a Harley. He and my mahmen live in a prefab house out on a farm, and eat their own chickens. We're talking beer out of a can, a store-bought cake, and hunting dogs running around under the table

THE OLD COUNTRY, 1731 F

Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.

How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.

and remember what Somerset Maugham said. 'To dine well in England it's necessary to have breakfast three times a day.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

The waves are Chinese, but the earth is an Indian thing.