Quotes About Culture

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.

The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.

I think it's time we start chipping away at the stereotypes in Hollywood about the Middle East, and the Arab World, because it's one of the most beautiful regions in the world.

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist of Latina women.

You have to look at the effects of something like 'Little Britain,' of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way people interact with each other.