Best Intercultural Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight, Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit, American Ambition, Arabian Adamance, Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality - like rivers running eager to meet in sea, cultures converged to bring me to life.”

Diversity Oneness Sufism Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Interfaith Polyglot Intercultural

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I never hankered for booze or drugs, you know why - because I'm already drunk, with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering contraband in history - I'm ever consumed with languages and cultures.”

Diversity Tolerance Integration Multiculturalism Inclusive Language Learning Polyglot World Citizen Cultural Studies Intercultural

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“From Ape to Human (The Sonnet) To label a spirit is to cripple a spirit, What we call cultural imprints are prison. Society of such culture is no human society, but merely an overglorified animal kingdom. Sure, the culture we're born in are part of us, But it must never take over human identity. That's how heritage facilitates bias-n-hate, And culture becomes excuse for inhumanity. Call it advaita, nirvana or humanity, the purpose is to surpass all divide. Anything that distances mind from mind, must never be defended as cultural pride. Mission is, not to remove cultural imprints, But to be civilized enough to surpass them. Only then can we be the bridge of benevolence, Only then the glorified ape shall emerge as human.”

Diversity Oneness Heritage Inclusion Global Citizen Cultural Integration Cultural Diversity Nonsectarianism Cultural Studies Intercultural

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“My legacy does not represent the achievement of any one culture, my legacy represents the capacity of the entire humankind.”

Diversity Humanitarian Oneness Nonduality Advaita Multiculturalism Global Citizen Cultural Integration Multicultural Poet Intercultural

Book:World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Any ape can boast about their culture, I'll die roaring for every culture on earth, except my own.”

Diversity Humanitarian Oneness Inclusion Advaita Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Cultural Diversity Polyglot Intercultural

Book:World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”

Beauty Japan Aesthetics Light And Darkness Shadows Japanese Literature Intercultural Far East

Book:In Praise of Shadows

Source: In Praise of Shadows

“This was the woman Narasimhan had married, as opposed to whatever girl from Madras his family wanted for him. Subhash wondered how his family reacted to her. He wondered if she'd ever been to India. If she had, he wondered whether she'd liked it or hated it. He could not guess from looking at her”

Marriage Interracial Marriage Intercultural Cross Cultural

Book:The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

“Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.”

Common Dialogue Heritage Agriculture Intercultural

Author:Jacques Diouf

“The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be”

Doe Might Concepts Universal Accounts Noise Defined Borders Consensus Defining Intercultural

Author:Jean-Jacques Nattiez

“Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures.”

Culture Opportunity Grows Understanding Technology Greater Keys Dimensions Collaboration Partnership Australian Curriculum Deployment Intercultural

Author:Susan Mann

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

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Author:H. Ned Seelye

“Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.”

World Desire Opportunity Language Focus Awareness Becoming Missions Obligation Legacy Productive Citizenry Personal Mission Intercultural

Author:C. K. Prahalad

“An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.”

Source: The Cosmic Serpent

“Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.”

World Should Humanity Culture Peace Differences Strength Benefits Diversity Dialogue Peaceful Guarantees Collectives Screenwriters Different Cultures Cultural Diversity Cultural Differences Intercultural

Author:Robert Alan Aurthur

“The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.”