Quotes About Culture

The plants adapt, the people adopt.

In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again. This time you give and next time you receive. Both the honor of giving and the humility of receiving are necessary halves of the equation.

A species and a culture that treat the natural world with respect and reciprocity will surely pass on genes to ensuing generations with a higher frequency than the people who destroy it. The stories we choose to shape our behaviors have adaptive consequences

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.

She's the Girl Who Dresses Too Hot For Work. Every rotation has one, probably every job.

a variety of languages

Mary had been raised in a family where blood was as thick as tomato sauce.

To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. —GOETHE, ITALIAN JOURNEY

some historians call Sicily "the world's island" because it has been conquered by so many peoples, owing to its location in the middle of the Mediterranean, valuable for trade and military reasons. Sicilians have been influenced by each culture, and the island's amazingly diverse history is reflected in its dramatic architecture, ruggedly beautiful terrain, delicious food, sibilant language, even the faces of its people.

Anyone who tells you that the Yao people never care for their daughters is lying. We may be worthless. We may be raised for another family. But often we are loved and cherished, despite our natal families' best efforts not to have feelings for us.

To learn a different language is to learn a different way of living

Stories tell us how we should live.

When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?

The government labels the haenyeo a cultural heritage treasure—something dying out that must be preserved, if only in memory. How does it feel to be the last of the last?" If they're academics, they'll want to talk about Jeju's matrifocal culture, explaining, "It's not a matriarchy. Rather, it's a society focused on women.

a traditional Cantonese gift: a tin of imported Danish cookies.

I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that hates that our family businesses- the very things that have kept Joy fed, clothed, and housed- are so embarrassing to her...We raised our children to be Americans, but what we wanted were proper Chinese sons and daughters.

We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can't escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.

It's a Sun and Moon truth that if a husband sees his wife give birth, he might die from it.

People keep asking me why I don't return to China. I tell them I can't return to a place I've never been. In

sociedad matrifocal.

My father always said I was a jade maiden and my future husband was a golden boy

My bound feet were extremely beautiful—my best feature—and I took great pride in them. Ordinarily I paid strict attention to Willow's ministrations, making sure that my deep crease was fully cleaned, calluses cut away, any fragments of broken bone that poked through my skin sanded down, and my nails kept as short as possible.

This is how things were: heavyhearted, but done in the traditional manner. THE