Quotes About Culture

I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.

We have such a weird celebrity culture in our country where we elevate talented, successful, or beautiful people to a level of perceived greater value.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

I am like the huge percentage of Indians who follow majorly cricket when it comes to sports.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina.

I'm most proud of my heritage; being able to shape people's perception of Rwanda or Rwandans.

You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.

My brother is working to change the perception of Chinese food in America.

Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.