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“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

“One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.”

People Trying Kind Different Culture Speak Language Voice Variety Shock Different Languages Culture Shock

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.”

Source: I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

“It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.”

“My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.”

Culture Community Advice Willing Poet Periods Variety Traits Stolen Time Periods

Author:Lucia Perillo

“It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.”

Culture Given Views Acceptance Diversity Intellectual Point Of View Variety Breadth Density

Author:Louise Bogan

“The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.”

Giving Humans Two Important Culture Sex Differences Human Beings Conditions Built Dignity Variety Stature

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world