“To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsCultureWhiteEmbraceAfrican AmericanMainstreamGrossAmerican CultureGeneralizationMainstream CultureAfrican American Culture Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?” ThinkingSometimesHardUsedCultureAirSubjectsExtremesBreatheCommentMainstreamPopular Culture Author:Lauren Greenfield
“For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'” CultureIdentityBattleRecognitionMainstreamFadesFilipinoMonochromatic Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.” CultureBlackComedyMediaBehaviorIntellectualResponseSatireArchitectMainstreamInvasionMainstream MediaBlack Comedy Author:John Cusack
“in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.” KindCultureSocialWhiteClassTakenGroupsMiddleMiddle ClassMainstreamNormSocial NormsBlandDeviation Book:FEAR OF FALLING Source: FEAR OF FALLING
“Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.” CultureWhiteWonderfulTvsBabyCouplePopulationCreditCardsChineseAdsMainstreamWonderful ThingsCredit CardChinese Culture Author:Iris Chang
“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.” TryingHeartCultureLinesHalfMiddleMissingEventsMy HeartMajorsOriginalsPopsMainstreamPop CultureUpbringing Author:Michael De Luca
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.” ThinkingWorldBookSometimesSeemsOrderCultureWindowGlassesWideNosesMainstreamPlatesLiving My LifeBookstoresCirculationI Live My LifeSlickMainstream Culture Book:Books & Life Source: Books & Life