Quotes About Culture

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

I prefer black music in general.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.

I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents moved from France to America.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.