Quotes About Culture

The problem with Western culture is that it is a show-off culture that intimidates. This is why it is generating so much death, loss and displacement. To perform ritual for show is to generate some kind of death or loss. Concealment of ritual is an act of life preservation because it is only in its concealment that needs are met that cannot be met in any other way. If

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

As immigrants fly across oceans they shed their old clothing because clothes maketh the man and new ones help ease the transition. Men's clothing has less international variations; the change is not so drastic. But those women who are not used to wearing western clothes find themselves in a dilemma. If they focus on integration, convenience and conformity they have to sacrifice habit, style and self-perception.

Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

Australians must decide for themselves whether this was the land of the dreaming, the land of the Holy Spirit, the New Britannia, the Millennial Eden, or the new demesne for Mammon to infest.

Aren't Hindu, Sikh, Mussalman, Isai, Parsee like the spices in Panjab's masala box? Assorted?

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Raum ist der Ausdruck der Gesellschaft.

So, nationalism (Spanish nationalism as well as Catalan nationalism), both in Catalonia and in Spain, takes the forefront of the political landscape in line with a broader trend sweeping European democracies.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Sabemos bien que en cualquier sociedad el orden social y cultural gobierna la relación con la naturaleza, que nombrar es clasificar, que una soledad absoluta es impensable, que toda identidad se define en relación con una alteridad, y que lo mismo y lo otro están estrechamente ligados, asociados en el tiempo y en el espacio.

the other and the past coexisted there from the beginning),