Quotes About Culture

For Chinese people, when it comes to parents, nothing is negotiable. Your parents are your parents, you owe everything to them (even if you don't), and you have to do everything for them (even if it destroys your life).

This what's so peculiar about America. We have been both exceptionally racist and exceptionally inclusive.

I can't tell you how many Asian kids I have met who, while acknowledging how oppressively strict and brutally demanding their parents were, happily describe themselves as devoted to their parents and unbelievably grateful to them, seemingly without a trace of bitterness or resentment.

A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.

There's also a penis museum in Finland.

Doesn't living in a domestic partnership with me reduce the number of cows your father can get for you in marriage?

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

All Americans wrote better in Europe. They crossed the ocean, and every word they wrote was brilliant. "There's someone at my door," Maddy

I'm not an elitist. I just know how to read.

the primary sources of moral decay in this country are the theaters, the dance halls, and the saloons.

The fact that the Irish embraced the potato only helped convince the English that it was a lowly food fit only for a peasant. Nonetheless

archeologist Patrick McGovern found evidence of an eight-thousand-year-old brew of rice, fruit, and honey at the Jiahu site in Henan Province. (He worked with Dogfish Head brewery to re-create the brew, which they named Chateau Jiahu.) It

The first boozy concoction to come from apples was cider. Americans refer to unfiltered apple juice as apple cider and usually drink it hot with a cinnamon stick. But ask for cider in other parts of the world and you'll get something far better: a drink as dry and bubbly as Champagne and as cold and refreshing as beer. When we drink it at all in North America, we call it hard cider to distinguish it from the nonalcoholic version, but such a distinction isn't necessary elsewhere.

Even today, we tend to think of sake as a miserable hot, sour, yeasty drink we once tasted at the urging of an aunt who took us to a Japanese restaurant in Kansas City.

When personal resentment overrides familial and cultural values, we all lose.

Christians obtain yet another benefit in seeing Jesus in his Jewish context, for the recognition of Jesus's Jewishness and of his speaking in a Jewish idiom can also restore faith in the New Testament. Doing just a bit of historical investigation provides a much-needed correction to America's Christ-saturated, albeit biblically ignorant, culture.

Jesus of Nazareth dressed like a Jew, prayed like a Jew (and most likely in Aramaic), instructed other Jews on how best to live according to the commandments given by God to Moses, taught like a Jew, argued like a Jew with other Jews, and died like thousands of other Jews on a Roman cross. To

More, the name Bethlehem literally means "house of bread.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates

Independente de qualquer crença religiosa, o simples fato de vivermos numa nação que faz parte do Ocidente judaico-cristão já nos torna herdeiros da linguagem bíblica. Estamos impregnados de suas historias e seus ensinamentos.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Women out in the village don't talk back to their husbands. It's just a law, when men say something, women should just listen. And you should never talk in a loud voice because a man outside might hear. I made that mistake, but I was lucky. In Tarinkot, a man beat his wife with an ax, and she survived, but her head was split open. Husbands who only use their hands or feet are very kind." -Heela (Gopal's female civilian Afghan respondent)