Quotes About Culture

It could only have been strange for Arthur—an American Jew who had experienced anti-Semitism firsthand, who, as a student, had protested against the rise of Hitler, whose family loathed the Germans just as ardently, and probably more so, than other Americans did—to listen to Marietta's story. But then, until recently, Arthur himself had worked for a German-owned company, Schering.

Anthropologists like to say that to observe a culture is usually, in some small way, to change it. A similar dictum holds true for Bourdain's show. Whenever Bourdain discovered a hole-in-the-wall culinary gem, he places it on the tourist map, thereby leaching it of the authenticity that drew him to it in the first place. 'It's a gloriously doomed enterprise,' he acknowledged. 'I'm in the business of finding great places, and then we fuck them up.

I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to be pared away. Barbarian that I am,I had eaten all of it.It had tasted quite nice too. Still,I took not of this and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

A well-spoken sentence in Aturan is a straight line pointing. A well-spoken sentence in Adem is like a spiderweb, each strand with a meaning of its own, a piece of something greater, more complex.

Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

Every place has its little superstitions, and everyone laughs at what the folk across the river think.

Every culture is different, but one thing is always true: the surest way to give offense is to refuse the hospitality of your host.

I have been alone for most of my life. But rarely have I felt it so much as at that moment. I knew one person within four hundred miles, and he'd been ordered to keep away from me. I was unfamiliar with the culture, barely competent with the language, and the burning all across my back and face was a constant reminder of how much I was unwelcome. The food was good though.

Kist, crayle, en kote," he swore furiously. He threw down the metal tube where it rang sharply against the stone floor. "Kraemet brevetan Aerin!" I fought down the sudden urge to laugh. My Siaru wasn't perfect, but I was fairly certain Kilvin had said, Shit in God's beard.

Por lo visto, en aquella parte de la ciudad hasta los demonios eran educados.

Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I

I have heard it from the mouths of the Edema Ruh, so I know it to be true.

Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

No creo que se pueda aprender todo de nada, y menos de un idioma.

People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.

Dondequiera que uno dirigiese la mirada, reinaba el desenfreno. La gente leía libros, incluso las mujeres.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

What enables a child not only to learn words, but to put them together in meaningful sentences? What pushes children to go on developing complex grammatical language even though their early simple communication is successful for most purposes? Does child language develop similarly around the world? How do bilingual children acquire more than one language?

certain other aspects of language—for example, individual vocabulary items—can be taught at any time. Learners' acquisition of these variational features appears to depend on factors such as motivation, the learners' sense of identity, language aptitude, and the quality of instruction, including how learners' identities and cultures are acknowledged in the classroom.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.