Quotes About Culture

torture and killing were as ingrained a part of their lives and beliefs as breathing. Such behavior was expected by the Comanche.

beating. Emma! A beautiful young woman with golden hair came outside. Her hair was tied into a a tail at the base of her neck. Two Indian women came up to her and they embraced. Each Indian woman held a child, one of them just a little baby.

One of the reasons we come to feel guilty is that we move away from the cross and a desire to please God and live instead for the approval of others. Families have rules, our culture has rules, and the church often has hidden agendas. Our society encourages us to be successful, but if we live by a success/failure model rather than under the authority of Christ, we wound our consciences.

If our culture defines normality in terms of male experience and values only women who relate to men, both nuns and Lesbians tend to be ridiculed or dismissed as irrelevant to the strides of history.

Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to link women with earth, matter, and nature, while identifying males with sky, intellect, and transcendent spirit.

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

We rode through a three-thousand-year-old country, saw the ruined capital of the Queen of Sheba and the underground red-rock city of Lalibela, fraternized with a tribe of leaden-skinned troglogytes living among the mountains, scrapped with brigands, outwitted crocodiles, and eventually emerged battered and in rags with a book of adventures and 1,000 feet of film.

All you men still have the Victorian hangover. I suppose you think woman's place is in the home, too?" "Not my home.

La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.

Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one "date"…

The astronomical number of firearms owned by U.S. civilians, with the Second Amendment considered a sacred mandate, is also intricately related to militaristic culture and white nationalism. The militias referred to in the Second Amendment were intended as a means for white people to eliminate Indigenous communities in order to take their land, and for slave patrols to control Black people.

Como dissemos em nosso manifesto, a música não é absolutamente a mesma em todas as nações. Sujeita às grandes regras da arte, ela se modifica no estilo e no gosto em cada nação, segundo as inspirações da natureza do país, os costumes, a índole e as tendências do povo.

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

Rudyard Kipling