Quotes About Culture

I'm one of not even a handful of British Asian popstars who are maninstream. Of course I was always tagged as British Asian singer Jay Sean as opposed to pop R'n'B singer Jay Sean.

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New York, trying to buy up the cultural places, who shall remain nameless. Well, there's a lot of brothers - pick any two. Pin the tail on the... they want to buy up stuff and steer the country a certain way.

I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

The food in Taiwan is pretty great.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

Singapore is better than Hong Kong; Hong Kong is better than Taiwan; Taiwan is better than the mainland. I'm speaking in terms of culture.

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

L.A. has so much to offer. So I want to take advantage of it.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.