Quotes About Culture

The Life—that feeling—The Life—the late 1940s early 1950s American Teenage Drive-In Life.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Cultural Values Determine Behavior.

Does anyone know when they are going to come out with the new Mayan Calender?

My name translated into Chinese is "Hy Yu"

Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty?

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being.

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

Or we may feel successful but not be perceived that way by others. Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own! Through repeated media exposure, we find it easy to begin using cultural success markers.

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we?

We're Indian! We have a right to conduct our own religious ceremonies, just like everyone else!

All native languages are in danger of dying in Canada. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages. Cree is my native tongue, the first language I spoke when I came into this earth, so I feel it's my responsibility to do whatever I can to help preserve it.

Language preservation is like saving the birds. We don't want birds to go extinct. Imagine Canada without the sound of a loon. It's a classic Canadian sound. Canada would lose part of its soul if loons went extinct. It's the same thing with languages. Native languages, in this country, or in any country, are part of its sonic environment. It's part of our connection with the earth. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages.

The most explicit distinguishing feature between the North American Indian languages and the European languages is that in Indian, there is no gender. In Cree, Ojibway, etc., unlike English, French, German, etc., the male-female-neuter hierarchy is entirely absent. So that by this system of thought, the central hero figure from our mythology - theology, if you will - is theoretically neither exclusively male nor exclusively female, or is both simultaneously.

In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writings on this subject. Despite his anti-imperialist stance, Marx often uses racist expressions, such as "barbarous"and "hereditary stupidity," to describe Chinese culture and people.

There is no American cinema; there are American cinemas.

Telling the truth in a country where there are no truth-speaking traditions that are respected is extremely hard.

As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Gelehrsamkeit

Odette never forgot her father's words: Them whitefellas, they can never touch the stars, no matter how clever they think they are.