Quotes About Culture

Puede que por eso las audioguías de los museos se han vuelto tan populares. Con ellas, una reconfortante voz te dice al oído qué pensar y sentir: «mire a la izquierda, por favor, observe». Sería maravilloso poder contar con esa voz también fuera del museo y a lo largo de la vida.

its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally

When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved

My mother changed the television channel every time two people kissed. Both had passed through the permissive 1960s untouched. It might as well have been the 1860s. How my sister and I ever came to be, I've frankly no idea.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

Our culture seems incapable of connecting cause and effect when the two events do not occur within easy recall of each other. The parents of these young adults have failed them totally, yet we as a culture refuse to connect cause and effect because we have no stomach for punishing the innocent-appearing parents.

Yet whether a culture condemns or accepts homosexuality, heterosexuality prevails and homosexuality survives.

evangelicalism—at its core, at its immovable power center—never was more than fundamentalism with lipstick on.

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

All public life sustains itself through metaphor.

metaphor' itself is not a static, ahistorical term; it is not as though there is a pervasive, universal concept of metaphor which can be applied, like a template, to all ages and cultures.

metaphors themselves are time-bound and ideologically motivated.

At the Chatou market in Guangzhou, for instance, he had seen storks, seagulls, herons, cranes, deer, alligators, crocodiles, wild pigs, raccoon dogs, flying squirrels, many snakes and turtles, many frogs, as well as domestic dogs and cats, all on sale as food.

Viruses couldn't be viewed with an optical microscope; they couldn't be grown in a culture of chemical nutrients; they couldn't be captured, as bacteria could, with a porcelain filter. They could only be inferred.

His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and "virgin lasses" in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.

Southern Chinese have always noshed more widely through the animal kingdom than virtually any other peoples on earth. During the Era of Wild Flavor, the range, scope, and amount of wild animal cuisine consumed would increase to include virtually every species on land, sea, or air. Wild Flavor (yewei in Mandarin) was considered a way of gaining "face," prosperity, and good luck. Eating wild, Greenfeld explained, was only one aspect of these new ostentations in upscale consumption

People in south China will eat everything that flies in the sky, except an airplane.

Biblical expositors are not pining away in their studies searching for ways to bring relevancy to their message. They don't need to. The Bible is relevant. Rather, they draw out the implications and applications that are already there in the text in ways that make sense for the culture the church is embedded in.

Too many of us unconsciously believe that a well-studied understanding of our cultural context, rather than the Bible, is the key to preaching with power.

If we don't consider the gospel context of the Bible as a whole, even well-exegeted imperatives turn into moralism. And this fosters a legalistic culture in our churches.

We do not need to adopt the standards, the mores, and the morals of Babylon. We can create Zion in the midst of Babylon. We can have our own standards for music and literature and dance and film and language. We can have our own standards for dress and deportment, for politeness and respect. We can live in accordance with the Lord's moral laws. We can limit how much of Babylon we allow into our homes by the media of communication.