Quotes About Culture

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

I've always considered myself to be Russian: my native language is Russian.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

It seems as though our leaders have almost forgotten about legal immigration and are just leaving our borders open, which is a detriment culturally, financially, and in a lot of other realms for native people.