Quotes About Culture

While the definition of culture used in all chapters included transmission by social learning and an element of sharing, as in our definition, the anthropologist authors of the later chapters added additional requirements. These

Human technology can be so powerful and effective because it accumulates. Cultural

renowned biologist and thinker E. O. Wilson calls the study of gene-culture coevolution "one of the great unexplored domains of science.

It soon became clear that elements of the songs of many birds are socially learned, and social learning seemed the most plausible explanation for the spread of a technique by which blue tits opened the tops of British milk bottles.123 Birds seemed to have culture.

Galef and Tomasello come from a null-hypothesis-testing, experimental psychology background. The null hypothesis is something like "chimpanzees do not possess culture," with culture being defined by something like "traditional behavior transmitted by imitation or teaching." They could not show in their own or others' experimental studies that captive chimpanzees could imitate or teach, so did not reject the null hypothesis. No culture.

Man who is without the arts is little above the beasts of the field.

When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

Mein gutes altes kroatisches Herz beschleunigte von Walzer zu Death Metal .

My mother named me Tomislav, and my father was a Bokši?. After my first week in the US, I'd become Tom Boksic. Which then led to Toxic.

Like many from Lazy America, she is short, and some people have called her fat, but those people haven't talked much after that.

My mother calls once a year to ask when I'm going back to studies. This is Croatian slang for "the money's up.

A trebuit sa ma multumesc cu a mi se spune Erra, caci atunci cand zeul limbii le-a dat francezilor alfabetul, litera h a ramas incuiata in biblioteca, iar francezii sufera de pe urma acestei pierderi si azi. Pentru ei, heroian e eroina, iar hotelul e otel.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

The Navajos were another matter. Theirs was a sprawling nation, wealthy in stock, obdurate in its ways, open to change but only on its terms.

Much was made of the "Oriental" need to save face, but Americans were not immune to the phenomenon.

Alvin Josephy

Some anthropologists divide cultures into shame cultures and guilt cultures. According to this perspective, shame is an outward mechanism, and guilt is an inward one which alludes to a human mechanism that produces strong feelings of remorse when someone has done something wrong, to the point that he or she needs to rectify the matter.

But we...are more bound by custom than by law, and old customs die hard

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fired chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Wschodnioeuropejscy ?ydzi stworzyli barwny ?wiat. Mieli j?zyk i literatur?, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemie?lników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, ?arty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania g?owy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który bra? si? z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego ?wiata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie daj? wyobra?enia o nim.

Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.

Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the eighteenth-century equivalent of saying that someone was thinking with his dick, survive into the Victorian age.