Other Cultures Quotes - Page 3

• More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Country, Phones, Hands

  7 Copy quote

• Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

  Roxane Gay

  Believe, Responsibility, Fighting

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on either side. People come from all across the globe and want to live here and they want to work here and they want to invest here. And that's a good thing. And they make up this country. But as a people, we [americans] are not highly skilled in languages. We're not highly skilled in knowledge of other cultures. And that's a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Ocean, Usa

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Missing, Good Things, Stuck

  7 Copy quote

• All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Aquariums, Others Opinions, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

  Marlene Zuk

  People, Way, Realizing

  4 Copy quote

• Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the
  way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are
  based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.

  Paul G

  Communication, Biblical, Reality

  6 Copy quote

• As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Bridges, Long, Complicated

  4 Copy quote

• You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Landscape, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

  Louise Erdrich

  Powerful, Vitality, Language

  31 Copy quote

• The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

  William J. Clinton

  Art, Unique, Cities

  15 Copy quote

• Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.

  Forest Whitaker

  Taken, Mean, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Girlfriend, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Play

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Teaching, Doe, Mature

  4 Copy quote

• Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Mean, Climbing, People

  27 Copy quote

• The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

  Rick Moody

  Hockey, Ice, Storm

  7 Copy quote

• People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

  Martin Scorsese

  Talking, People, Knows

  10 Copy quote

• Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

  Tom Freston

  Understanding, Increase, Ifs

  8 Copy quote

• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, People, World

  "It’s All About Doing Some Thinking on This Very Special Day" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way.

  Martin Jacques

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

  Roxane Gay

  Believe, United States, Looks

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

  Serinda Swan

  Color, Dresses, Texture

  "Serinda Swan on 'Graceland' and Her Go-To Red-Carpet Designers". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. January 30, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source