“Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.” IfsCultureFictionMajorsConcernViolentDystopianEscapismDystopian FictionEnamoredViolent Death Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?” WorldDoeWarPastCultureLessonsDrawsConcernBackgroundsWar Of The WorldsGenocideHolocaustContinentsSecond World War Author:Irina Bokova
“Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.” CultureConcernRootsProfitMotivePullingDecadenceProfit Motive Author:Jane Fonda
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.” WorldNeedsMeanChildrenLittlesDoePhilosophyCultureMoralWifeDangerousSourceHealthyConcernGenderWelfareGuidanceTensionGender EqualityDegradeHealthy FamilySlappers Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.” KnowsWorldMeanHas BeensSaidMatterCultureConcernPerfectionPursuit Author:Matthew Arnold
“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesHas BeensCultureCoursesBitsIssuesMinesLittle BitConcernDeafDeafness Author:John Scalzi
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely