110 Quotes About Cultural-differences
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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The seed of cultural harmony lies not in the culture you are born in but in the recognition of the sweetness of other cultures.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Culture should be a path, not a prison.
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- 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 Aberjhani
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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
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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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- Author David Eddings
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These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.
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- Author Robin Flower
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Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
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