Quotes About Culture

What's on the other side of the tiny gigantic revolution in which I move from loathing to loving my own skin? What fruits would that particular liberation bear? We don't know—as a culture, as a gender, as individuals, you and I. The fact that we don't know is feminism's one true failure. We claimed the agency, we granted ourselves the authority, we gathered the accolades, but we never stopped worrying about how our asses looked in our jeans.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Our culture pushes this idea that romantic love is somehow more significant than other forms of love.

V??il jsem v romantickou lásku, protože moje kultura mi to vštípila a protože v ni v??ili všichni kolem.

And history teaches that what a culture can't assimilate it destroys

There are people out there with very limited horizons. They wear social blinders. They feel it is better to play it safe, to run scared, and blame the most convenient scapegoat. And that means censorship…and censorship is the attempted murder of our whole culture. Censure replicates itself until it engulfs everything.

Warriors in some cultures drink the blood of their enemies. Some people consume the blood of animals." "As a rule, here on Ice Island, they restrain themselves.

The customers were mainly people middle-aged or older, and they'd probably take a sledge hammer to anything that spewed out the top forty. This was Lawrence Welk country. A wild tune was a polka.

We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya's father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it.

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

In an Indian love marriage, by the time everyone gets on board, one wonders if there is any love left.

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

Nowadays, people don't fall in love. They swipe left and right…

Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits.

Say that to my mother. She stays up at night wondering about who will marry me with this skin colour.

Crying dads and slapping moms are a routine part of how Indian kids are hammered into shape and manipulated to give up on things they really want

why don't they call white-skinned people rice-ish?).

Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The

However, ask someone to articulate Indian community values and there won't be a clear answer. Do

Our enemy is the old school of thought, or rather, the people who defend the old school of thought. They do this in the name of antique Indian policies, culture and values.

Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates.

While airports are particularly good places to hunt for Indian stupidity, many other Indian processes are retarded too.