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“I am the warfare (A Very Naskar Sonnet, 2698) My brain is the planet's largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism, so don't, I beg you, don't trigger me too much, because once the hate crosses my threshold, I won't hate you back, instead, I will inject your language, your culture into my bloodstream, and pour out literature at such a vast scale, that before you know it, your offspring will be studying my canon as their native heritage - my human-centric divinity will be their divinity, my life-centric culture will be their culture, my service-centric science will be their science, my earth-centric existence will be their existence. I am the warfare, and the rewriting of civilization started decades ago, when I made slave out of the most tyrant language on earth. Show me love, I'll respond with a quiet smile - throw me hate, I'll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”

DiversityNationalismBigotryHumanistIntoleranceIntegrationMulticulturalismInterfaithDecolonizationCultural Studies
Book:With Love From A Blue Rock
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“Sonnet 2500 You're right, I am not a poet, I have not written hundreds of poems; you're right, I am not a writer, I have not written a couple of books. I'm sorry, I am not a poet, I have not written hundreds of sonnets, I have written thousands - I have not written a handful of books, I have erected a library. You do not have the scales in your two-dimensional intellect to measure the multidimensional Ecosystem of Expansion - larger than tribe, larger than time, I am Detonation of The First Multicultural Civilization.”

CultureCivilizationDiversitySocial JusticeToleranceCivil RightsIntegrationMulticulturalismInclusiveCultural Studies
Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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“From Ape to Human (The Sonnet) To label a spirit is to cripple a spirit, What we call cultural imprints are prison. Society of such culture is no human society, but merely an overglorified animal kingdom. Sure, the culture we're born in are part of us, But it must never take over human identity. That's how heritage facilitates bias-n-hate, And culture becomes excuse for inhumanity. Call it advaita, nirvana or humanity, the purpose is to surpass all divide. Anything that distances mind from mind, must never be defended as cultural pride. Mission is, not to remove cultural imprints, But to be civilized enough to surpass them. Only then can we be the bridge of benevolence, Only then the glorified ape shall emerge as human.”

DiversityOnenessHeritageInclusionGlobal CitizenCultural IntegrationCultural DiversityNonsectarianismCultural StudiesIntercultural
Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
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“Sonnet 1152 In Korea, I am Ingan - In Turkiye, I am Insan. In Latam, Soy Humano - In North America, I'm Human. In hindi, I am Khichdi*, A *hodge-podge of cultures, Few have the mind to stomach, while tribals feel perturbed. Life is love, love is life - all other existence is null and void. World is love, love is the world - all other paradigm is poison voyage.”

DiversityHumanitarianExistentialismInclusionAdvaitaMulticulturalismCultural IntegrationMulticultural PoetCultural StudiesWorld Cultures
Book:Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
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“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.”

CultureStudySocietyTraditionSociologySocial StudiesIcebergCultural Studies
Book:Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
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“As long as political movements exercise a fatal attraction for those who seek to drown the sense of personal failure in collective action - as if collective action somehow precluded rigorous attention to the quality of personal life - political movements will have little to say about the personal dimension of social crisis.”

PsychologySocial CommentaryCultural Studies
Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
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“So far, heritage has only caused a mess. You know why? Because it is never about just heritage - all talk of heritage inadvertently leads us to the savage dilemma of "our heritage versus their heritage". And such dilemma might have been acceptable in a savage society, but it is totally and utterly out of place in a civilized world. So, either the very construct of heritage evolves, or becomes an impediment to the expansion, hence the welfare, of the world as well as the self. That is why I say - just because you are born and raised in a particular culture, it doesn't mean, you are supposed to stay chained to that culture all your life, with blinkers on your eyes, that keep you ignorant of the beauty beyond the horizon. Let me put this into perspective with an unambiguous example. Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Turkey? Well, everybody loves Rumi, but I learnt his tongue, so I could pick up where he left off. Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Latin America? Well, everybody loves to yell "viva la libertad", but I learnt el idioma, so I could revolutionize the very paradigm of revolution. Every corner of earth has some distinct strongholds, and I am the force that brings them together to create a strong, sapient, and undivided planet.”

Turkish WritersDiversity And InclusionCultural IntegrationCultural HeritagePolyglotViva La LibertadLanguages And CultureMulticultural PoetCultural StudiesPolyglottery
Book:Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
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“Neighborhood Humanitarian (The Sonnet) They ask me, why do I never run out of ideas! It is because I never dwell in one culture. Sometimes I'm North American, sometimes Latino, Sometimes I'm South Indian, sometimes I am Turk. When I run low on charge, I listen to Español, When my sight gets foggy, I watch Cary Grant. Whenever I feel homesick, I listen to some Telugu, Whenever my heart bleeds, I run straight to Turkey. It is sort of a perpetual motion engine, I empower the cultures, the cultures empower me. If I am the world's not-so-secret hometown human, The world is my secret to my infinite electricity. How, do you think, I became the neighborhood humanitarian to every single person on earth! It's because I never glorified one culture over another.”

OnenessMulticulturalismDiversity And InclusionGlobal HarmonyGlobal CitizenCultural IntegrationHumanitarian PoetryCultural StudiesHumanist PoemIntercultural Exchange
Book:Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
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“Aum Amen Assalaam (The Interfaith Sonnet) Jo bole so nihal - honest, brave 'n nondual! Ain't no human run by divisionism. You may say Merhaba, or Hallelujah, Smiling I respond, Walaikum Assalam. Every human greeting is an act of peace, Language differs, not the emotion. Yet we keep bickering over language, Overlooking all loving unison. Chag sameach say some of us, Some say happy holidays! Across the words, into the heart, We'll find the flame of happiness. Underneath every version of felicidad, there is a sense of illumination. Aim of all Aum and Amen - is unification.”

Diversity And InclusionReligious HarmonyCultural IntegrationFelicidadPeace And LoveWorld Is FamilyInterfaith DialogueCultural StudiesIntercultural CommunicationSpiritual Poem
Book:Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
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“I grew up speaking two languages, mother tongue and national tongue, then in my late teens I assimilated English from pirated dvds of American movies; soon after I absorbed another language, from the South of India, again from movies. Years later when I started writing and got WiFi, that's when an entire new horizon opened up. This time I found myself drawn to Turkish and Spanish, which became second languages in the canon, after my first English. I don't describe, I embody - I don't study a culture, I disappear into the culture.”

IntegrationAdvaitaMulticulturalismPolyglotLanguages And CultureCultural StudiesMultilingualismBilingualBilingualismPolyglot Poet
Book:Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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“States rise, states fall, but cultures are everlasting. Isms arrive, isms wither, but human spirit is evergreen. You don't have to support the state to love the culture. You may be deemed enemy of the state, and still be a hero of the culture.”

Social JusticeSocial ReformerCultural HeritageCultural StudiesAnti GovernmentEnemy Of The StateNational HeroPro GovernmentCultural PoliticsCultural Poetry
Book:Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
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“Never confuse culture with state. Some of the richest cultures of the world often end up with some of the most regressive states in the world - Türkiye, Azerbaijan, India, Italy to name a few, in the context of 2023. So I repeat, never let your disapproval of a government make you bitter towards a culture. Government never reflects culture - if it did, I would not have penned a single Turkish word in my works - as opposed to the fact that, the Turkish culture is an intrinsic element of Naskarean literature.”

GovernmentDemocracyDemocraticPolitical ScienceCultural IntegrationCultural DiversityCultural HeritageCultural StudiesWorld CulturesEnemy Of The State
Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
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“Autopsy of The West (Naskaristana 2754-2757) Food just tastes better when you eat with hands, sitting on the floor, together with family - which goes against the artificial, life-wrecking lifestyle invented by the west - in western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation - this is the autopsy of the west, not biopsy, because we do biopsy of the living, not the dead. We cannot establish proper, healthy human integration, without first decolonizing the world, which is why it is imperative, that the world outgrows the west, no matter the country - in short, whether you're born in a first world civilization of the global south or a third world country of the north, like England or America, you must outgrow the west, if you want to be civilized, if you want to be human. The American must stop being american, you must outgrow everything that the pilgrims held near and dear, because the pilgrims were among apekind's most grotesque offenders, second only to their own forefathers, the british empire and other euro imperials. You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place - colonial history is not heritage, it's a crimescene. Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging - to burn the bridges with dehumanizers is the first requirement of civilization.”

ImperialismGeopoliticsDecolonizationEthnic CleansingWestern CultureColonial HistoryCultural StudiesCultural AppropriationGlobal SouthCivlization
Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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“In sciences white people are not the pioneers, in philosophy white people are not the pioneers, in art and astrophysics whiteys are not the pioneers, in medicine and mathematics whiteys are not the pioneers, then how on earth did you come by this insane inkling that white people are the super race, how many bottles did you have, or did you bang your head against the rocks while making fire!”

PhilosophyWhite SupremacyWorld HistoryRace RelationsModern ScienceNeonaziFar RightCultural StudiesAncient CivilizationEthnic Studies
Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“You can think about Robin Hood as a classic poacher, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. And, essentially, what I see taking place in fandom is that process, where we steal the cultural resources that belong to the networks and we remake them, to speak to what we as fans want them to be, be they concerns as women, or racial concerns, sexual politics questions or whatever. That‘s what I think happens most of the time, when people are engaged in fan writing, in one way or another.”

Cultural StudiesFandomAnticapitalismFanfictionFanFan Studies
Author:Henry Jenkins
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“If you wanna know about a culture, you can read about it in any language - but if you want to experience that culture like your own, you gotta do it as one of their own - through their own native language.”

Cultural IntegrationCultural DiversityLanguage LearningPolyglotLanguages And CultureLanguage BarrierCultural StudiesWorld CulturesLanguage UnderstandingLinguistic
Book:Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
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“On the one hand, these filmmakers are the descendants of the May Fourth movement at the beginning of the century. One of the important ideological components of the May Fourth movement was its radical antitraditional stance, exemplified by its famous slogan: "Smash the Confucian Temple" (zalan kongjiadian).”

ChinaCinemaTaiwanCultural StudiesFilmmakersMainland China
Book:Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
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“Humanity passed from a world of tolerant pagan polytheism to the black and white duality of Christianity. Something was either on the side of God, salvation, and goodness or on the side of the devil, evil and perdition. The tolerance, logic, rationality, and knowledge of natural phenomena that were an integral part of the Classical world were manipulated by the Church in favor of the supernatural, the mysterious, and faith in providence.”

ReligionChristianityHistoryPaganismWolfWolvesCultural StudiesHuman Animal Relationships
Author:Luigi Boitani
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“Every belief, every word, every phrase, every observation, every proposition, every citation, every punctuation mark is subjected to ruthless doubt and viscious interrogation. The conventions of grammar oblige me to end most of these sentences with periods, but there are ghostly, invisible lines curling and hovering over most of these tiny dots. What I mean is that most of the periods in this book are interrogation marks in disguise. Most of these declarations are really restless questions underneath.”

Madness And SanityCultural StudiesDisability StudiesBlack Studies
Author:La Marr Jurelle Bruce
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