Quotes About Culture

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.

If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets.

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk music.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.