Quotes About Culture

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I'm from and my heritage before. It's part of growing pains. But when people see me being proud of what I am - and they are what I am too - it makes them proud. That's why I try to represent my Asian and my black side.

In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

Being on 'Pose' for me has now allowed me to realize how important my culture is. It's made me realize how important the struggles that everyone has gone through are, and now we are able to tell that story.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.

After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

My motivation for helping is that I come from a culture that isn't given a lot of opportunity.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

What we've demonstrated is there's an immense appetite to travel more authentically and immerse yourself in culture... as opposed to having a commoditised experience.

I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.