Quotes About Culture

some of the original authors like Hartman von Aue or Wolfram von Eschenbach.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

half-breed Salish or Flathead.)

Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink.

We have chosen a problematic name for ourselves: we are no longer souls as we once were, not even citizens; we're all consumers now, grasping all the stuff every which way.

for myself, the past per se holds little interest, and the present offers only the profound malaise of a culture increasingly devoid of the protocols of self-reflection.

Black women's participation in constructing African-American culture in all-Black settings and the distinctive perspectives gained from their outsider-within placement in domestic work provide the material backdrop for a unique Black women's standpoint. When armed with cultural beliefs honed in Black civil society, many back women who found themselves doing domestic work often developed distinct views of the contradictions between the dominant group's actions and ideologies.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about.

According to the "Cult of True Womanhood," a popular phrase during those years, a true woman possessed four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.

This is also the season when the women drink the blue-black juice of the marking nut tree to do away with the babies in their wombs—the ones who would be born only to be buried next season.

When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.

Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?

When Anna went to school, English sounded to her like pebbles dropping into shallow water.

Someone telling you that you've done something racist can be an act of respect and kindness. In a culture as racist as ours, and given the long history of racism, it's impossible not to say or do something racist from time to time. Someone pointing out our racism gives us a chance to do something useful about that culture and history.

There really is no downside to travel, save a little jet lag and a dented bank account. A small price to pay for a million-dollar experience.

Belgium's pommes frites are not french fries at all—a grievous misnomer, as this universally known and loved side order is Belgian in origin. Belgians make the best frites in the world: Crispy, sweet, lightly bronzed—these are the gold standard of fries.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

from the word you build the village, but from silence you construct the world.

Florida is a blend of many societies... Each has a colorful and exciting history that they bring to our state.

What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.

When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die.