Quotes About Culture

Swedes don't like to ask favors of each other: they keep their problems to themselves and suffer in silence. Being duktig is one facet of this: if you are duktig then you don't need any help, and as duktighet is the ultimate ideal for Swedes; to ask for help - or even to give it - is a kind of low-level social taboo.

Not even the Swedes would put camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger.

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Other countries love their flags,' a Danish dinner guest protested to me recently. 'Look at the Olympics!' 'Yes,' I said. 'That's true. But the French don't hoist the Tricolor on the cat's birthday.

This, truly, is the ugly side of rampant neo-liberalist capitalism," I thought to myself, leaving hurriedly. "Not even the Swedes would put Camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger." The

Before traveling to Iceland, I made a vow to myself that there were two subjects that I would not mention: Björk and elves.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

We are often consciously unaware of the culture we live or work in, or of the profound influence it has on our lives.

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and system that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

the slow, complicated evolution of how we as humans decide to define and act on an agreed definition of human rights that would be functional and useful for all national cultures. So far this has been an impossibility.

In eighteenth-century Great Britain, "molly" was used so frequently to describe men, often gender deviant, who desired other men that the private homes or tavern rooms in which they congregated were called Molly Houses.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

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Covarrubias began proclaiming, like Caso, that Olmec was the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica.

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon , February 4, 2015].

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

La nación más culta y religiosa de Europa permitió que lo impensable creciera en su seno.

Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.

Everyone is molded", said his mother. "We choose what to mold our children with. Nothing grows in a vacuum. If you think you're making a free human being just by letting him grow spontaneously, you won't end up with a free human being. You'll have a patchwork boy composed of whatever is prowling about in his culture. He'll be about as far from freedom as you can get.

What is culture? It's a set of consistent patterns people follow for communicating, thinking, and acting, all grounded in their shared assumptions and values.

The first and most important step, then, is to understand what the culture is, at a macro level, and how it's manifested in the particular organization or unit you're joining.

To do this, you'll need to focus on three critical tasks very early in your tenure: adapting to the culture, making political connections, and aligning expectations.

If you create the impression that you believe "there is no good here," the organizational immune system will certainly kick in.