Quotes About Culture

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.

Bollywood, no doubt, has a wider acclaim, and it feels top of the world to see people from all around the world dancing to my songs.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.

That's one of the best things about being an Indian, our sense of style allows for a much wider selection of colour.

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

My wife Maya Bhate is from Pune. My daughters Diya and Keya, and I, are regular visitors to the city, since her family is based here.

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'

My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music.