Quotes About Attitudes

Erbring's research demonstrates that the German media liberally and regularly resort to negative stereotypes about America and Americans that they would not use in the case of reporting on any other country, certainly never on anything pertaining to Germany.

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life.

Social networks are indeed politically segregated—surveys find Democrats are more likely to know more Democrats and Republicans more likely to know more Republicans—but it is difficult to know how much is from geography (red or blue states, regions, neighborhoods, and workplaces) and the extent to which polarized social networks cause, or are the product of, polarization in attitudes.

Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations were colored by their economic interests. This pattern was played out in the history of the Rice family, whose evangelical theology underwent a transformation as they moved within two generations from being small yeoman farmers to landed proprietors whose wealth depended upon the system of chattel slavery.

Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations were colored by their economic interests.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Are we going to be risk-averse about health care, education, child well-being, or are we going to set aside those attitudes, which we find in government all too often, and lead?

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that hasn't happened.

The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

The best way to handle women is to keep them pregnant and barefoot.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I think Danish girls might be a little more chill - at least, that's what I've heard from people who've also dated American girls.

Dangal' movie has been made on our lives in which two daughters win a medal for the country. It just shows that the times are changing and people's attitudes are changing and if it is changing because of us then we are very happy about it.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

I come from a generation where I did not have any knowledge about racism, trolling or degrading someone because we hardly used to do it to other people.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

The society in which we live in Delhi is conservative.

In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.