Quotes About Culture

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it was his English, his actual use of language, or if it was because people didn't really listen and instead put into the words they heard the words they expected to hear.

name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.

Before Night Comes. Some people think of it as a modern classic. He also wrote We Ourselves, about Northern Ireland.

My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.

We are all murderers and prostitutes -- no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives .

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Now, let's not be hasty,' said Mik 'What exactly is a samurai, really? Do you think that's something we should know before we wish it?' 'Good point. It might turn us both into Japenese men.' She squinted at him. 'Would you still love me if I were a Japenese man?' 'Of course

yet that one thing—the color of their skin—would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

The books under the dust, they were stories. Folktales, fairy tales, myths, and legends. They spanned the whole world. They went back centuries, and longer.

Her names means hope. But not in their language, and not for them.

Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Amba, know that in the world I know, the dead do not sleep. They exist in the same sphere as human beings. Remember that while reincarnation may be a pillar of Hinduism and Buddhism, it is not known in Islam. Yet we in Java live with both. We are Javanese because we are both.

Sementara aku diam-diam semakin yakin makanan Aceh yang benar-benar enak mungkin hanya didapatkan di rumah orang Aceh, bukan di rumah makan

Tamu tak pernah tak dijamu di rumah orang Aceh. Dan bukan sekedar makanan kecil, tapi makanan lengkap. Nasi dan lauk-pauk.

One can always benefit from the culinary knowledge of others.

Increasingly she realized there is no such thing as word-for-word equivalents with another language. When she translated a line, never mind an entire work, she became aware that the original ceased to be, as she had led it to a place where it could not survive in its pure form.

Religion makes us poor judges of art.