“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.” YearsCountryBeautifulLife IsCultureTreeSignificanceRemindersCherriesBeauty Of LifeFragilityJapanese CultureCherry Blossom Author:Homaro Cantu
“Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.” Has BeensCultureFameComplexitySignificanceAcademicPopular CultureProfundity Author:Dennis Prager
“Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.” IfsKindMadeUseValuesCultureWhiteCommonCareersVirtueStudyEffectsIntellectualRedUltimateBlueFinalsSignificanceImperialismConceitAnthropologyOther CulturesMeadRed White And Blue Author:Margaret Mead
“The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.” PeopleImportantPlayCultureGamesLeftSportsUltimateMarkSignificance Author:Barry Sanders
“I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.” WantHumansPersonsRealFeelingsDesireCultureReligiousSignificanceConventionalReligious Person Author:Lily Tomlin
“But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.” CultureFashionStyleRacistSignificancePrivilegedStereotypeGeneralizationAppropriationHigh Fashion Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.” PeopleMenMindHumansMadeMatterFallCultureLevelsExistenceAttentionOur LivesAtheismDespairEternalMen And WomenConcernedUniversalFoundationConstantPositive AtheismMythPracticalsMortalsPrimariesSignificanceHuman MindTimelessDay To DayDay LifeOrigin Of LifeDay To Day Life Book:The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
“And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.” WayPastSpiritualSpiritCultureLandStrangeMembersTraditionAbsenceIndianSignificanceAttachmentParadoxAdoptingHold MeDominating Author:Linda Hogan