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“You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.”

Knows Faces Culture Community Painting Unique Western Representing Collectivism Western Culture

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”

Trying Faces Culture Sides Class Society Degrees Diversity Highest Social Justice Smile Distress Social Class Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Fuller

“English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?”

Want Bigs Faces Culture Language Loses Rich Dying Connections Variety Manifestation Globalization Big Business Undesirable

Author:Patricia Ryan

“Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Faces Form Order Culture Evil Struggle Violence Goodness Opposites Be Good Brutal

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.”

Thinking Book Problem Faces Culture Weight Complexes Valuable Significant Masterpiece Unbearable

Author:Susan Griffin

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Ifs Want Should Country Faces Culture Wish Community Imagine Rejects Muslim Women

Author:Norman Tebbit

“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.”

“The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].”

“I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.”

Way Mean Faces Culture Challenges Opinion Extremes Simplify Marginalized

Author:Zainab Salbi

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”

Looks Lasts Faces Culture Next Difficult Impossible Generations Difficulty Aim Lays Arise Coats Jamaica Specifications African Culture

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Able Together Faces Moving Culture Community Ability Secret Majors Adversity Extraordinary Moving Forward Tribes Upheaval Kept Secrets Cherokee

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”

Ends Enough Wisdom Happiness Faces Success Purpose Culture Intelligent Cheerful

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.”

Doe Sometimes Age Faces Culture Five Corruption Tyranny Old Age Visible Conquest Clash Treachery Corrupt Society

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".”

People Way Body Faces Moving Certain Choices Culture Acting Situation Events And Love Response Touched Abstraction Making Choices Work And Love

Author:H. Ned Seelye