Quotes About Culture

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Poetry is what is avoided as it is surrounded by translation.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

the form of people's beliefs to the essence. There is no one right way; there is only the way that is right for you. There is something unique, perfect, and beautiful in every culture, in every system of belief. Look for what you have in common with others and accept and love those who are on different paths.

Do you even know the difference between a girder and a joist?' he asks pompously. 'Ah, well, yes,' answers the Irishman in his laconic way. 'Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

Kalimera," said softly. Ivy sighed

Doors and windows opened along the street, and women poured out, appearing on apartment balconies and porches and spilling onto the sidewalk singing. It was now revealed that this was a Hispanic neighborhood. For a moment, Ruth thought she was the only white person and felt a shameful jolt of racial paranoia.

If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in the Dominican Republic, that are the result of centuries of international commerce, colonization, conquest, and the slave trade. The facelessness means that there is no 'typical' Dominican woman.

People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions. This is the one and only universal human connection.

Funny how we talk about our roots when our people have been here for generations." "Interesting, too," Anna said, "how we're not really divided according to our nationalities, but by how much or how little money we have. Most of the differences are acquired, they depend on what money can buy you.

The "Ofrendas" exhibition [within the 1987 art exhibition "Hispanic Art of the United States"] emphasized the fact that religious cosmologies and practices of Latin America are not minor/minority but rather espoused by vast numbers of people who are not white Protestant males. Unwittingly, perhaps, the exhibit suggested that we drop the words cult and superstition , as applied to non-European spiritual practices, and substitute the word religion .

Una vieja crónica tailandesa hace la siguiente descripción de los farang: "Son excesivamente altos, peludos y desaseados. Educan a sus hijos durante mucho tiempo y consagran su vida a acumular riquezas. Sus mujeres, grandes y robustas, son muy bellas. No cultivan arroz".

I thought I might go to the Cervecería Alemana on Plaza de Santa Ana.

When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.

The other white man was a Scot," said Nathaniel. "Married into the tribe, by the name Ian Murray

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Carlos Monsiváis expresaba en voz alta lo que todos los ciudadanos nos preguntábamos: "¿Pero qué es México? ¿una catástrofe a corto, mediano y largo plazo?".

Las niñas decentes se van a la cama a las seis de la tarde para llegar temprano a su casa".

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people