Quotes About Culture

There is not a single person I have met in my lifetime who is comfortable talking about death. It's the biggest downside to our youth-centric culture. Death is a bummer, so let's not talk about it. Let's hide it away and hope it never strikes close to home.

Most people in Iceland are either referred to as the son or daughter of their father. For example, a woman with a father named John is Johnsdaughter, or in Icelandic Jonsdottir. A man with a father named John is Johnsson, or Jonsson in Icelandic.

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation.

That's the problem, isn't it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don't want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don't have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.

La cultura ayuda a un pueblo a luchar con las palabras antes que con las armas

Pour fuir ce monde saturé d'écrans, mais vide d'intelligence.

He jokes about only wanting to see the restaurants, but it is all about learning . . . about new cultures, and how to then incorporate those cultures into his coaching.

sobre la necesidad de proteger y difundir la herbolaria indígena como una práctica médica válida. Podrías reclamar los derechos de los mapuches en la Araucanía frente a las invasiones de sus tierras por colonos blancos. Defenderías la preservación de las lenguas nativas.

O de Ralph Waldo Emerson: «The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization». «El fin de la raza humana será que —eventualmente— morirá de civilización.»

Usté me va a perdonar, pero apenas entiendo lo que dice. A nosotros ya no nos gusta hablar la lengua mexicana.» ¿Cuánto se perdió en el camino para que esa mujer se haya alienado de su idioma y por tanto, de su identidad? Tú la hubieras reprendido. La lengua es el último baluarte de la resistencia.

No había duda de por qué Breton había dicho que México era el país más surrealista

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

Decidió ir derecho hacia San Angel. Caminó hasta Insurgentes y dio vuelta en Avenida de la Paz rumbo a Revolución. De los Godinez pasó a los mirreyes chavorrucos y a las forras chiquiguapas. Egresaban de los restaurantes medio jarras a pedir su auto al valet. Cayennes para los papis, Land Rovers para las nenas y en el inter, pose de padrotones ellos, de Cuqui la rayita ellas.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. (re: changing San Francisco)

I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

Cultural influences have set up the assumptions about the mind, the body, and the universe with which we begin; pose the questions we ask; influence the facts we seek; determine the interpretation we give these facts; and direct our reaction to these interpretations and conclusions.

Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

Dimension, Existence, Culture and Identity all splinter and are left behind. Pink Sound, brothers and sisters. Pinkness. It's dark. It's... flat. It is unexplainable... it is peaceful... it is love... ...it is...

The article I actually write is a masterpiece. It takes talent to convince people that war is a beautiful experience. Come one, come all to exotic Viet Nam, the jewel of Southeast Asia, meet interesting, stimulating people of an ancient culture...and kill them. Be the first kid on your block to get a confirmed kill.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.