Quotes About Culture

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.

Political culture has become popular culture.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

My knowledge of popular music more or less ends in 1972.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

All language is a popularity contest.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.

The population of Hindus is 100 crore. So obviously India is a Hindu Rashtra.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.