Quotes About Culture

Only when he's left Chinatown, and the faces around him become Black and white instead of Asian, do the flags become more sporadic, the people here apparently more confident that their loyalty will be assumed.

With one finger he tips it from the shelf. The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Japanese Folktale. He's never seen this particular book before, but as soon as he sees the cover he knows it's the same story. A Japanese folktale

PACT: Preserving American Culture and Traditions. A solemn promise to root out any anti-American elements undermining the nation.

A community is known by the schools it keeps.

database at Ellis Island

PACT: Preserving American Culture and Traditions.

Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.

Ever since they invented Hello Kitty, the world hasn't been the same. You can safely chart the rise of The Culture of Cute since that flat-faced skank started showing up everywhere.

Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that phrase is every acceptable is if you are British and you are speaking to Madonna.

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

Will I stop describing, as only a true Southerner can, a truly awful physical appearance as simply "most unfortunate" as in, "She has a most unfortunate nose"?

Bizler ki ayn? kitaba ba? e?mi? insanlar?z. Bizden ala akraba m? olur?

Güne? ülkeleri ayd?nlat?r, sözler milleti.

Yabanc? dil, dü?ünceyi tan?tan ve tatt?ran bir anahtard?r, bir "medeniyet anahtar?".

Hâkim s?n?f?n olmad??? ülkelerde, ba?ka toplumlardan ideolojiler toplumun hâkim dü?üncesini belirler.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

happy is the nation without a history

Così questo paese, dove non sono nato, ho creduto per molto tempo che fosse tutto il mondo. Adesso che il mondo l'ho visto davvero e so che è fatto di tanti piccoli paesi, non so se da ragazzo mi sbagliavo poi di molto.

He viajado lo suficiente por el mundo como para saber que todas las carnes son buenas y valen lo mismo, y eso es precisamente lo que estraga y por lo que uno busca echar raíces, hacerse tierra y pueblo, para que su carne tenga sentido y dure más que un triste cambio de estación.

Sei in gamba perché sei stata a Parigi", pensavo, "o sei stata a Parigi perché sei in gamba?

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Elles portent le hijab le plus sévère et parviennent à se prostituer sans montrer la plus infime parcelle de leur corps. Du grand art!