Quotes About Culture

You might be a Desi, if you join extension school of Ivy League for a part-time certificate program so that your LinkedIn profile shows the Ivy League stamp.

Slaan my plat met 'n vars snoek.

Yes, we are all the same under the skin, and human beings, but why is being human defined from a White, Western perspective?

If there is anything that can be termed White culture, it is the synthesis of ideas, values, and beliefs coalesced from descendants of White European ethnic groups in the United States (Barongan et al., 1997).

Let us, for the moment, assume that assimilation is desirable and that becoming a part of your country of residence is important. The question is this: Shouldn't we, therefore, all become Native Americans? Further, why aren't we?

The myth of the melting pot is predicated on several false assumptions: (a) a receptive society, (b) an equal status relationship between culturally different groups, and (c) its morally and politically neutral character. In reality, the melting pot is used to mask White supremacy and White privilege (topics, as we have seen, that impede race talk).

race, culture, and gender influence how people behave and communicate. The problem is not in the differences of how people communicate, but in the failed understanding of their meanings, and the detrimental actions taken by those in positions of authority who hold stereotypes.

most people seldom think about the air that surrounds them, and how it provides an essential life-giving ingredient, oxygen. We take it for granted because it is plentiful in our everyday lives; only when we are deprived of it, does it suddenly become frighteningly apparent. Whiteness is transparent precisely because of its everyday occurrence, its institutionalized normative features in U.S. culture, and because Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, average, and ideal.

A fish in water, for example, requires oxygen for survival. However, the medium to deliver it must be water, not air. The atmosphere that symbolically represents White culture is quite noticeable to people of color, and while nurturing to White Euro-Americans, it may prove less than healthy for people of color.

TMZ' and 'People' magazine are expected to be fluff, 'Time' is expected to be news. You'd be hard pressed to spot the difference between them now.

I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.