Quotes About Culture

Conventions are actually a form of cultural constraint, usually associated with how people behave. Some conventions determine what activities should be done; others prohibit or discourage actions. But in all cases, they provide those knowledgeable of the culture with powerful constraints on behavior.

The frequent traveler is continually confronted with this kind of situation: the behavior that is appropriate in one place is inappropriate in another, even in situations that appear to be identical. Known cultural norms can create comfort and harmony. Unknown norms can lead to discomfort and confusion.

Attractive things certainly should be preferred over ugly ones, but why would they work better? Yet in the early 1990s, two Japanese researchers, Masaaki Kurosu and Kaori Kashimura, claimed just that.

In some Australian Aborigine societies, time moves relative to the environment based on the direction in which the sun rises and sets. Give

Danger awaits those who deliberately violate the frames of a culture.

Beauty comes from the reflective level. Beauty looks below the surface. Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

Cultural constraints are likely to change with time.

Design research supports both diamonds of the design process. The first diamond, finding the right problem, requires a deep understanding of the true needs of people. Once the problem has been defined, finding an appropriate solution again requires deep understanding of the intended population, how those people perform their activities, their capabilities and prior experience, and what cultural issues might be impacted.

Violation of cultural conventions can completely disrupt an interaction.

Unlike many of their consumer-minded neighbors, the Amish do not assemble their spirituality piecemeal by personal preference.

Everything woke, turns to shit.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

My only consolation was I wasn't alone. Most Americans aren't living very good stories. It's not our fault, I don't think. We are suckered into it. We are brainwashed, I think.

Starbucks was delivering more value than just coffee; they were delivering a sense of sophistication and enthusiasm about life. They

And then with an expansive Russian song They returned home to town.

When the anarchist Giashvili was sentenced to death for exploding a bomb that killed a senior government official, nobody in Tbilisi would act as his executioner. He was reprieved—laudable in a Christian or humanistic culture, but disastrous for a state whose weaknesses were being probed by embittered fanatics

flowed into and from one another, and then on to yet others, all of them tied in some way to the city in which they lived. Though they were Venetian, the conversation took place in Italian

I've always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.

Brunetti thought of Parliament in the way most Italians thought of their mothers-in-law.

A man without a sense of fashion is a man without a soul.

Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to

Germans found American (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.