Quotes About Culture

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

We, as a nation, have always worshipped cricket and cricket players, and even football. But kabaddi and kushti are seen fit only for villagers. That's changing now.

I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.

It would be great to see more Asian women playing cricket at every level.

I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

Constructive criticism is not much accepted in the Caribbean.

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

The best critics of America are Americans.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

Croatia is an amazing place.

'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.

Music is meant to cross boundaries.