“I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.” KnowsDifferentCultureHavensMetsToughDifferent CulturesAussies Author:Teresa Palmer
“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.” WorldChildrenWarHateCultureViolenceOne ThingTaughtGrewMetsGrew UpIgnorantFormerTalibanOutside World Author:Greg Mortenson
“The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.” WorldCultureWalksMetsHallsPortal Author:Thomas P. Campbell
“It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.” KindSometimesTogetherCultureResultsPlanetsCircumstancesMetsSlaveryMusicalUnfortunateNew OrleansIndigenousBrazilHavanaAfrican CultureIndigenous CultureUnfortunate Circumstances Author:David Byrne
“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.” MenSchoolYoungMotherCultureFatherLanguageSecretCollegeMetsYoung ManFascinatedGraduatesBusinessmanTokyoGraduate SchoolGeisha Author:Arthur Golden
“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.” WorldWayMadeStillsTwoStoriesCultureHeavenHistoryHumourMetsJokesBlindHistoricalEmpiresHandfulAstonishingContagiousBulliedStoutBlind DateGreat Historical Author:A. A. Gill