3,162 Quotes About Culture

the Spaniards don't like cultural programmes at all, nor culture in general, it's an area that is fundamentally hostile to them, one occasionally has the impression when talking about culture to them that they are sort of personally insulted.

People in exile are rich -- rich with the accumulated sum of their contradictory identities.

Honor cultures probably rely too much on shame, but our modern alternative is an epidemic of shamelessness.

When we cross borders culturally, we experience some alienation from our own culture and gain an objective perspective toward our own culture at the same time. A bicultural individual comes to identify home as a culture outside his or her original identity, and may vacillate in commitment and loyalty to both cultures.

We can accept each other and be together without giving up our differences. It’s useless – even foolish – to reduce us to a common denominator.

Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.

With the probable exception of the bond between husband and wife, every liaison between people in this society takes on some forms of this patron-client relationship

It takes irrationality to hold, but intelligence to profit from, conflicting beliefs and attitudes.

This is quite the scary world we're constructing. One where the disabled can be discarded and NBA stars can be gods. Come to think of it, that pretty well describes our culture right now. Thank you, liberalism.