Quotes About Cultural norms

We make a mistake in thinking that something is right or wrong because culture deems it such. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, culture may approve or disapprove, but if there is no overarching umbrella of truth beyond culture, our times may wreak havoc in the name of culture. Slavery is an example of this. People did not flinch at the barbaric practices that were tolerated for so long. The abuse of marriage is no less a crime against humanity.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American.

Ne tuhaf deÄŸil mi? diye devam etti.Biz kibarlar, uygar davran??lar?m?zla övünürüz ama birbirimizi yemeyi en güzel yemeklere tercih ederiz.

We ain't in the game to love these hoes, you suppose to hit it and pass it to the left. I didn't love that hoe, it was just something to do.

Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.

Like the Artha-shastra, but perhaps for the opposite reason, the Kama-sutra is wary of nuns; it advises a married woman not to hang out with "any woman who is a beggar, a religious mendicant, a Buddhist nun, promiscuous, a juggler, a fortune-teller, or a magician who uses love-sorcery worked with roots (4.1.9).

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

Lynchings—they're hate crimes," he said. "But the kid who thinks that [wearing a skirt] is anomalous and decides to play a prank is not committing a hate crime.

If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.

For in Eubonia," he said, "we are taught that your wife's relatives will never find fault with you to your face so long as you keep away from them. And more than that, no sensible man expects.

Today, if asked about their religion, people in the center say they're nothing, because that's the cultural thing to say.

You got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.

Harriet agreed that intellectual women should marry and reproduce their kind; but she pointed out the English husband had something to say in the matter and that, very often, he did not care for an intellectual wife.

in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa. don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. i do not believe it. it's true, sally said defiantly. in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?

For reasons steeped in flawed intuition, differing cultural norms, and superstition, detectives in Perugia almost immediately focused on Amanda Knox as the target of their investigation. It was this "junk profiling" that caused them to believe that because she didn't weep for the victim in public, she didn't weep in private. This lack of public display of grief caused them to falsely believe she killed her friend.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.