Quotes About Culture

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.

I couldn't join my husband's business as, according to my father-in-law's unwritten convention, women of the house aren't allowed to meddle in the family business.

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

I grew up on 23, country music highway, which is a stretch of road where Ricky Skaggs and Dwight Yoakam and Loretta Lynn played. Driving up and down that on the way to school - to baseball games, to anywhere - you see all these signs commemorating these artists. It was a point of pride for my area growing up.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they're so upbeat and positive and polite.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and we grew up as part and parcel of Belize's culture.

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.

Singing has been part of my upbringing.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing and experience.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.

If a girl is not covered from head to toe, it does not mean she is inviting you to ogle at her. If we are interpreting it that way, it is not the girl, but our upbringing that is to be blamed. It is the thought process that needs to be changed.