Quotes About Homogeneity

The thing about Russia? Everyone is Russian. They're just Russian. They're Russian.

During disintegrative trend reversals, these processes work in reverse. Abatement of elite overproduction decreases intraelite competition. Additionally, there is another curious dynamic that tends to increase intraelite homogeneity, the "closing of the patriciate", in which the established elites close their ranks to newcomers and dramatically reduce, or even reverse upward social mobility.

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

One thing I hate is going to a beach - they all look the same to me!

When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.'

People don't talk about anything... No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.

They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.

Ei, si lucrurile produse in serie au devenit mai simple. Odinioara, cartile ii interesau doar pe cativa oameni, risipiti ici, colo. Le dadea mana sa fie altfel decat ceilalti. Lumea era incapatoare. Dar dupa aceea lumea s-a umplut de ochi, de coate, de guri. Populatia a crescut de doua ori, de trei ori, de patru ori. Filmele si radioul, revistele si cartile au devenit toate o apa si-un pamant, un fel de coca facuta dupa aceeasi reteta.

homogenous: Men in their twenties

Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.

Cafés used to be unique places for unique minds, now they are standardized places for standardized minds.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

Edward Casey, a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University, argues that "the encroachment of an indifferent sameness-of-place on a global scale" is eating away at our sense of self and "makes the human subject long for a diversity of places.

I come from an area of southern England that is utterly homogenous. All the history near me is about royalty and fealty, things which leave me cold. I lack roots, and have great warmth for places that have them.

The report first carefully outlined the arguments for and against linguistic states. It urged a 'balanced approach' which recognized 'linguistic homogeneity as an important factor conducive to administrative convenience and efficiency' yet not 'as an exclusive and binding principle, over-riding all other considerations'. Among these other considerations were, of course, the unity and security of India as a whole.33

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Social psychologists confirm that we are likely to perceive people outside our own community as more alike than those within it. We perceive members of our own group as individuals, but see other groups as more or less homogenous (psychologists call this the "outgroup homogeneity bias").

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.