Quotes About Culture

But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.

And the reason it meant so much—so much more than, say, dancing or table-tennis—was because the people out there were different from us students: they could have babies from sex.

It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants.

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

It was my wish to re-build my Japan in fiction, to make it safe, so that I could thereafter point to a book and say: 'Yes, there's my Japan, inside there.

Não há virtude nenhuma em se apegar à tradição só pela tradição, como fazem alguns.

Firstly, we must widen our common literary world to include many more voices from beyond our comfort zones of the elite first-world cultures.

He rolled his eyes. First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either. I sputtered a laugh. I think that's Swiss.

Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.

There's a reason why movie theatres don't encourage people to bring their goats.

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores.

Personal ambition and greed are essential to the success of a banking firm, but other qualities contribute to success, including teamwork, leadership, strong management, luck, a common tradition or culture.

The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.

Culture clash is terrific drama

A man who had a love affair was considered wicked but romantic; a woman who did the same was a whore.

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.

There's nothing wrong with white people. They just ain't black.

My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it's better than money in the bank.

L'homme qui prépare les onguents et les médecines a pour nom apothicaire. Lorsque c'est une femme qui exerce cette activité, on l'appelle sorcière.

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner.

había recogido a un europeo en una carretera.

Perhaps women covered their nakedness to make themselves more alluring, not less. Rosa Hellman