3,162 Quotes About Culture

Every year far more people kill themselves in Japan than die through war or terrorism in Iraq. We go on and on about other countries, but I think Japanese society is pretty cruel too.

Being bad is not good, but too sad. And being good is not at all bad. This simple equation, It's the whole elation: Keen eye for batik patterns and plaid!

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.

In my family, cooking and serving a meal always was, and still is, quintessential. The most important question you’d hear at our house is either ‘Are you hungry?’ or ‘Have you eaten?’ presuming that as long as you were not hungry, everything else was secondary. A good meal, according to our family philosophy, could defeat any drama, any worry, any existential crisis. Everything could be resolved once you’d shared a meal with your family or friends.” -Make Me an Omelette

Of course Mirabelle would have a good life with Mark and Linda. There was no question about that. But would there be something—something—missing from her life if she were to grow up with them? Mr. Richardson was suddenly keenly conscious of Mirabelle, of the immense weight of the complicated world on this one tiny, vulnerable person.

We started spending a lot of our free time together, going out to dinner, hanging out and watching TV or going to movies during the week. He’d kiss me, but he wouldn’t sleep with me. For years I’d thought that sex was the best to get things going, to jump-start a relationship. It wasn’t what you waited for. It was what you did, when you figured out the rest afterward , if you bothered to.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

People who have been brought up in a monocultural society tend to have a negative , prejudiced and arrogant attitude towards other nationalities

Monocultural society’s foster attitude towards people on the basis of material wealth