Quotes About Culture

I'm a little uncomfortable with all of this.' 'With what?' 'Well... doesn't it feel weird that we're only beating up... ...Asian people?' 'We're in Hong Kong. The bad guys are Asian. The good guys are Asian. Everyone here's Asian.' 'I'm just used to beating up people of all races and creeds. That's how I do it in New York. ...

Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

In 1991, the average bra size in the U.S wad 34B. Today (2007) it's 36C.

Through the emphasis on the everyday, mass consumption, and experience visual culture does concentrate mainly on the study of modernity – in this case the world in the post-World War II era.

we must not forget the discovery of perspective in the Renaissance period in northern Europe

as well as in Italy

Here, as in most of art history, 'International' refers only to the West, and in this particular case to Europe since America was not really known about when this work was made.

and placing emphasis on the kinds of values that a male-dominated society and culture wants to read about and wants to see in the works themselves.

What's German for "Holy shit, a big dog in a T-shirt and panties just stole my bag!"? If I kept this up, I might have to learn.

Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.

I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.

Toker Etiquette was moving along, they had been studying advanced problems like where to pass a joint in a moving crowd.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.

Ni la convergencia económica ni la homogeneización de preferencias son una consecuencia inevitable de la globalización.

a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread-and-butter interests. When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at "priming" our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our economic interests.

Let's say you're sitting in a group meeting when the counselor calls you a gang member. You're offended. You hang around with people of the same cloth, the same experience, the same sufferings. These are your friends, like family. You don't think of yourselves as gang members, but of course, technically, that's what you are. And let's say you embrace the label.

I think it not amiss to say that I am a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture. Many persons might find this statement puzzling, assuming that if a person is a radical in one realm, he is a radical in all others

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

While successful culture can look and feel like magic, the truth is that it's not. Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It's not something you are. It's something you do.