110 Quotes About Cultural-differences



  • Author Elizabeth Acevedo
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    If you asked me what I was,& you meant in terms of culture,I’d say Dominican.No hesitation,no question about it.Can you be from a placeyou have never been?You can find the island stamped all over me,but what would the island find if I was there?Can you claim a home that does not know you,much less claim you as its own?

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  • Author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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    The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

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  • Author Nadia Hashimi
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    Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.

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  • Author Amor Towles
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    For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a city famous for its idiosyncratic culture and yet, the very habits, fashions, and ideas that exalt that city in the eyes of the world may make no sense to him at all. As he proceeds through life, he looks about in a state of confusion, understanding neither the inclinations nor the aspirations of his peers.

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