Quotes About Culture

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an open-minded person, if the only diet of information you get is scary images of men in beards, that starts to play on you. But you come to find out that the Muslim world is not a monolith.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

I was very happy in Portugal.

I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

The bar for loud family meals is set pretty high when you come from Portugal.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

My daughter's Portuguese.

I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house music; there are all sorts of languages that are featured in house.

I am like all Portuguese people in that I admire Mourinho a lot.

We, Portuguese, make this country very big.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

We might think we don't, but everyone descends from native Brazilians. When Portuguese arrived here, everyone was native Brazilians, so I have that in my blood.

A respiratory pathogen may pose an asymmetric risk to America, given our culture, economy and federalist system.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.