Quotes About Culture

Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.

I like to consider that I have a good insight into other cultures because I grew up with my parents having different views on things. It makes traveling a lot easier, I do enjoy other cultures.

I just love history and I loved learning about different religions and other's people's views about the world.

In India, people have narrow-minded views about nudity and boldness.

I think that's what separates the NFL because they're so many different cultures in here that you get to learn from, that you get to experience that people from the outside don't get to experience. We don't live in a box. We understand that there's different type of views, different type of actions, and we have an open mind to listen to them.

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

Reggae is vile.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

When I first showed up at Villa I thought we had a weird old dressing room.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.

When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

I was born in New York but grew up between Switzerland, where my mom is from, and Tunisia, where my dad is from. Now I live in the East Village in New York, in the same building where my parents lived when I was born, so I've come full circle in my life.

Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.