Quotes About Cultural norms

Bagi orang Barat, memiliki isteri yang kedua tidak beradab, tidak pantas dan kejam sekali, tetapi apapun kekurangan dalam kehidupan rumah tanggamu sehingga engkau tertarik untuk membangun rumah tangga yang lain, jangan sampai mengorbankan anak-anak.

The one thing the English can't stand is someone getting above themselves.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Too often, people acted like her curves were some engraved invitation.

You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and culture. But this approach undermines your freedom, for if you accept without question whatever moral beliefs come your way, they are not really yours. Only if you critically examine them for yourself are they truly yours.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

She said that it was often taboo in a culture to have a real discussion of the dominant traits; in our culture, for example, a real discussion of capitalism or war was not permitted, suggesting that these dominant traits had become compulsive and overgrown.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

I'm tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that's a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that's what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship.

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.

You go into Afghanistan, 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.

What I want to know is that why we, as a nation, we are telling women that it's okay if a man is power tripping on her through either verbal advances or whatever. Why are we normalizing this kind of behavior?

Supimos de esa cárcel que es ser chica, de los impulsos y sueños que genera y por qué acaban sabiendo qué colores combinan y cuáles no.

Disapproval always depends on other people - dead people, foreigners - doing the unacceptable action.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year's resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.

I don't have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture. BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.

I choose to live at a pace that reflects God's wisdom more than cultural norms.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.