Quotes About Culture

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture to sell us processed food. The family meal is a challenge if you're General Mills or Kellogg or one of these companies, or McDonald's, because the family meal is usually one thing shared.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.

If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.

It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

I love my heritage. I'm very proud of being Cuban. But I clearly understand that I am an American first.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

You're actually putting someone down by saying that you don't understand their culture and hence it's not normal. Perhaps some things we find 'new' were simply things we were ignorant to earlier.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.