Quotes About Culture

She could not imagine finding the patience to raise kids in the age of cell phones, drugs, casual sex, social media, and everything else on the Internet.

Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't

Over its twenty-three-plus years, the bookstore had become the center of downtown Santa Rosa.

Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands.

The children learned English, taught it to their parents, and rarely spoke the mother tongues at home.

Because it's Appalachia. The coal companies are destroying our mountains, towns, culture, and lives, and it's not a story.

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't, but I digress).

At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

The Hermitage was a key location

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

The language of the lowlanders was in fact much closer to northern English

The politics of Scotland were tribal: blood ties and kin culture were predominant

There followed fifty or so actors of both sexes made up as Brazilian natives, who paraded naked through the streets

The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture.

God's process of revelation required that he condescend to us, that he accommodate our humanity, that he express himself in familiar language and metaphors. It should be no surprise then that many of the common elements of the culture of the day were adopted, at times adapted, at times totally converted or transformed, but nevertheless used to accomplish God's purposes.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal level, that there is no Other - that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials. This alone is the key that can unlock the prison of culture. It will neutralize the poisons of the stereotype that allow men to go on benevolently justifying their abuses against humanity.

C]ulture-learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions-is a prison.

The core concept in Griffin's writings about racism—that members of dominant groups tend to view minorities, because they seem different in some extrinsic way, as intrinsically other, and "as merely underdeveloped versions of their own imprisoning culture"—was intuited in Black Like Me and articulated in a seminal essay, "The Intrinsic Other

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.