Quotes About Culture

This thing called Contrmporary America--and its obsession with televisions, game systems, and computers_has gone a littlr far if you ask me. Some call it the Information Age, but I'd tend to say it's more the Sitting-on-one's-butt-and-letting-other-people-do-the-thinking-for-you Age.

Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean.

Yesterday I asked my teacher, 'How come I have to study English? I'm never going to England!' " Stevie still isn't laughing, but

love New York City from the Battery to the Bronx, but

Minciunile sunt fascinante pentru c? ele demasc? paradoxurile societ??ii noastre

Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean. My youngest's favorite show is The Magic School Bus. When we brought home the DVD, she exclaimed, "Daddy, it's a show about our family!

Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, he

Her English had an elegant European lilt, what I thought was a French accent—?vowels in the front of her mouth, consonants brushed with feathers.

Catholic schools in New York City.

on Staten Island.

Well, how else to explain… all of this? Or me, of course? Or us? Snocones, Pokémon, the Simpsons, the justice system in America, iPods.

also miss the Cockney accent.

Nordic Classicism.

Jersey City. On weekends

Cinco hundred dollars. No habla español

the Maori people of New Zealand have long practiced a type of tattooing known as ta moko, which is traditionally done with chisels.

from the nearby New York City boroughs

many people are surprised to hear that there are comedians in Russia, but they are there. They're dead, but they're there.

thanks to the Afghan custom of pashtunwali, we are fed, given shelter, and treated as guests.

What's that old saying? A well-armed society is a polite society.

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.