Intercultural Quotes

• Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Strength, Peace, Differences

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.

  H. Ned Seelye

  Taken, Heart, Journey

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• Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Opportunity, Focus, Desire

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• The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misunderstood, Second Best, Conversation

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• The best things can't be told.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Best Things

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• Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

  Jacques Diouf

  Agriculture, Heritage, Common

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• Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures.

  Susan Mann

  Technology, Opportunity, Keys

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Doe, Borders, Noise

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• An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.

  Jeremy Narby

  Sacrifice, Land, Knowing

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin

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