Quotes About Culture

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

Western films don't do very well in India.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.