“So, I'm just joining a group I know nothing about?”
Abby asked.
“Yep! All you need to know is how to use a
gun or a knife, unless you know how to already.”
he said, and looked down at her gun clipped on
her belt. She followed his look.
“Umm yes, I know how to use both but why?”
she asked
“Like I said, not important, but what is important
is, 'Will you join the society?”
“The iceberg model highlights why we cannot judge a new culture purely on what we see. Instinctively, we know there's more to a situation than we initially perceive... It is essential to take time to uncover the beliefs that underline behavior.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“The peril of unconscious bias is greatest when it seeps into all levels of society and becomes group thinking.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.”
Source: King Solomon's Mines
“... Gen Z has a global perspective. Gen Z will graduate into a recession on account of the 2009 financial crisis and the global pandemic of 2020. These economic stressors will undermine this generation's ability to be independent and self-reliant. Gen Z were born into an era of increased gun violence, terrorism and war.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“To truly appreciate the essence of a culture you would need to grasp the language that offers a window into its traditions and beliefs.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Pausing for a moment of mindfulness attention to observe the person in front of you will help you to slow down and connect more purposefully.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Personal responsibilities cannot compensate for societal irresponsibility”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“I live as lamp to the world not another lamb.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“If you are so far above the society you live in, you feel like you are in a very deserted street, in a wonderfully quiet place, a real paradise, far from all that primitive shouting, from the pitiful nonsense of all kinds of irrationality, from that real hell called stupidity and ignorance!”