- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture Quotes
How culture shapes who we are.
These culture quotes range from admitting that pop culture references are a poor substitute for real understanding, to growing disillusionment with celebrity culture the more one is exposed to it. Another connects classroom culture directly to organizational culture. Related reflections appear in our Cultured quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have ended the VIP culture in Delhi. We made additional night shelters for the poor. We have started the anti-corruption helpline. We are impartial and are not against anybody.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.
- Ancestral
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you're able to hold close.
- Bulwark
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left's tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture alone won't save us from racism.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
- Candy Store
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020