Quotes About Culture

I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.

Te advierto que el amor libre se está pasando de moda muy deprisa.

concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especie. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

Los españoles, ya se sabe, nunca estamos preparados para ser felices

Lo que diferencia al hombre del animal es que el hombre es un heredero y no un mero descendiente. José Ortega y Gasset

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

A world of meaning is lost when these views of racial ideology, the brutalization of war and the state-run process of extermination dominate our understanding of the Holocaust because the question "Why did the Nazis and other Germans burn the Hebrew Bible?" demands a historical imagination that captures Germans' culture, sensibilities, and historical memories.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?

Brought in three or four references to Fallen Women

Jeremiah had said Dead End was like New York, but with fewer naked cowboys. I'd responded that New York was like Dead End, but with fewer gator wranglers.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

le programme télévisé est souvent l'unique conversation des gens. C'est pour ça que tout le monde regarde les mêmes choses : pour ne pas être largué et avoir quelque chose à partager.

Je suis une aspirine effervescente qui se dissout dans Tokyo.

Japón es un país que sabe lo que significa volverse loco

Él me escuchaba como si le estuviera contando las cosas más extrañas. La ventaja de las conversaciones con extranjeros es que siempre podemos atribuir la expresión más o menos consternada de nuestro interlocutor a la diferencia cultural.

Ser de un determinado lugar quizá consiste en eso: no comprender en qué consiste.

Natsukashii definisce la nostalgia felice - risponde -, l'istante in cui la memoria rievoca un bel ricordo che la riempie di dolcezza. I suoi lineamenti e la sua voce esprimevano dispiacere, perciò si trattava di una nostalgia triste, che non è una nozione giapponese.

KuÅŸkusuz çarm?h?n ülkesinde yaÅŸayanlar ile Japonlar?n prensibi ayn?yd?: Birinin hayat?n? kurtarmak demek, abart?l? minnet durumu sebebiyle onu köle haline getirmek demekti. Ä°nsan?n özgürlüÄŸünü elinden almaktansa ölmesine izin vermek daha iyiydi.

odiosos. Tengo una amiga que se ha casado con un japonés. Tiene dos hijos, seis y cuatro años. Llaman a su madre pipí y a su padre caca.  Me reí.