Quotes About Culture

India is for me a difficult country. It isn't my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.

I know the sort of doctors it have in Trinidad,' my mother used to say. 'They think nothing of killing two three people before breakfast.' This wasn't as bad as it sounds: in Trinidad the midday meal is called breakfast.

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Right now, there are far more descendants of the Scottish diaspora scattered around the world than there are living in Scotland.

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But if we can radiate true joy from a deep place in our souls, despite the external realities, we will have much to say to a stressed-out, cynical culture that knows very little of true joy.

No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No

Doctors tended to blame mothers for encouraging their daughters to tight-lace in order to win a rich husband, while mothers often argued that their daughters persisted in the practice despite pleas to stop. Both doctors and members of the general public tended to believe that women's bodies were, by nature, weaker than men's.

In recent years scholars and costume curators have increasingly realized that fashion must be placed firmly within its cultural and historical context;the study of dress cannot be separated from women's history, for example.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

the migrating bands in these times preserved hot coals in hardened mooseskin sacks or birchbark containers filled with ash in which the embers pulsated, ready to spark the next campfire.

Famous sales coach and dear friend Jack Daly suggests, "Why don't you throw people a party when they start, instead of when they leave?" Sydney-based software firm Atlassian sends each new employee, whatever his or her position, to a resort spa the weekend before the start date as a way to celebrate the new job. The spouse or a guest gets to go along — making both new employees and their spouses raving Atlassian fans.

Sydney-based software firm Atlassian sends each new employee, whatever his or her position, to a resort spa the weekend before the start date as a way to celebrate the new job.

You need a "strange" culture and a "strange" strategy to differentiate your firm in the marketplace.

People are not resources that you consume. So rethink the name of the department that takes care of them. Call it Talent Development, Human Relations, People Support, or whatever fits your culture — anything but Human Resources.

Another central element is the list of candidate competencies that align with your culture and strategy. As experienced leaders discover, it's more important to hire for this kind of fit than for specific skills, so long as a person has the capacity to learn and grow (though it's best if you can find someone who's a match in both cultural values and skill set).

All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secular rationalism, and open markets provokes the resentment of both weaker and less-secure theocracy and autocracy alike.

Who we are, how we think, and the manner in which we act, ipsis factis, are considered obnoxious, dangerous, and unpalatable to many fundamentalist Muslims around the globe, who endure manifestations of our power and influence daily, from DVDs in Kabul to text-messaging ads in Yemen.

In emblematic fashion, America stands as a protector of the global system of market capitalism and constitutional government, and of the often reckless modernist culture that threatens so much of tribal and indigenous custom and protocols. That we are therefore often to be hated by the authoritarian, the statist, and the tribalist—and periodically to be challenged by those who want to diminish our power, riches, or influence—is regrettable but nevertheless conceded.

tragedy, comedy, and the Parthenon were not so much expressions of native genius as reflections of lots of money.

In 2020 nearly eight billion diverse peoples dress, listen, talk, travel, and communicate in an increasingly homogenous manner that mostly follows the examples of those in the United States, Europe, many of the English-speaking former colonies of the British Empire, and the Asian democracies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.