Quotes About Culture

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

I love the Chinese people.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

I chose to wear the hijab at age 16, soon after my family moved from Britain to Saudi Arabia.

Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I was born into. These are the things that make my work. They make who I am as well.