Quotes About Culture

The Moslem people had brought an extraordinarily rich mixture of knowledge, beauty, and bloodshed to the Iberian peninsula; in the process Spain had been permanently transformed.

Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.

Because every family is a distinct cultural unit, it is good that our methods differ. God did not intend for us to walk in lockstep with one another. We ought to rejoice in a common commitment to biblical principles and in the variety of methods God's people employ.

There are strange movements rising now, not only across the world, but right here in the U.S. of A. You can see it on the internet. Boys dressing as girls to seem more powerful. Girls dressing as boys to shake off the meaning of the power, or to leap on the unsuspecting, wolf in sheep's clothing.

There are strange movements rising now, not only across the world, but right here in the US of A. You can see it on the internet. Boys dressing as girls to seem more powerful.

But consider this: are patriarchies peaceful because men are peaceful? Or do more peaceful societies tend to allow men to rise to the top because they place less value on the capacity for violence? Just asking the question.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

When you look at it, on the surface Japan is very westernized, but westernized in a Japanese way," explains Mitsunori Murata, a nutrition expert and professor of pediatrics at Tokyo Women's Medical College. "Maybe we will eat a hamburger, but it will be Japanese-size, not American.

From childhood, Japanese are accustomed to eating portions that are a third smaller than or even half of American portions. And

Images of God dictate who will feel worthy in society and who will feel inferior, who will be respected and who will be despised, who will get easy access to the literal, material goods of the culture and who will have to fight for those goods.

Text after text, scholars never tired of trying to compensate for sentencing women to eternal drudgery, which they themselves abhorred, by dreaming up fancy ways of labeling it, easing their consciences and allowing them to view their self-serving little world of men-gods as a fair, nay noble, thing.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&ampB changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus , intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.