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“The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.”

“Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.”

Mean Culture Issues Taken Conflict Torn Other Cultures

Author:Forest Whitaker

“It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.”

Thinking Want Mind Littles Home Bigs Culture Difficult Views Cities Doors Girlfriend Canada Phenomenon Want Me Locks Back Home My Girlfriend Big Cities Other Cultures

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.”

People Thinking Play Culture Black Roles Hair Black Women Other Cultures

Author:Solange Knowles

“Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.”

People Art Character School Culture Community Taken Talent Intellectual Painter Characteristics Mexico Conquest Personal Experiences Other Cultures Fugitive Bravo

Book:Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Source: Manuel Álvarez Bravo

“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.”

“I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.”

Thinking Has Beens Country Hard Reality Together America Culture Immigration Our Country Explosions Blinded Other Cultures

Author:Junot Diaz

“And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.”

“I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.”

Want Needs Children Culture Students Diversity Tolerance Vocabulary Accustomed Other Cultures

Author:Suzy Amis

“Since I don't feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested and open to other cultures as well. It's also fun looking ethnically ambiguous because no one can quite put a finger on what I am and it's very entertaining to me!”

Feels Wells Culture Fun Fingers Entertaining Ambiguous Other Cultures

Author:Kina Grannis

“Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.”

People Ideas Inspiration Culture My Own Unusual New Ideas Other Cultures

Author:Kansai Yamamoto

“There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.”

Book Country States Kids Culture Growing Up Growing Immigrants Other Cultures

Author:Mitali Perkins

“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.”

Thinking Kind Children Culture Cases Products Built Treats Mark Institutions Educational Nationalism Other Cultures Educational Institutions Parochialism

Author:Jay L. Garfield

“Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.”

Knows May Said Important Culture Individual Critical Reputation Factors Related Variables Other Cultures Trustworthiness Reliability Follow Through Westerners Who You Know

Author:David Livermore

“What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.”

People Way Used Culture Interesting Cities Architecture Digging Other Cultures Archaeology Diagrams

Author:Jimenez Lai

“It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.”

States Form Culture United United States Claims Innovation Corporations Phenomenon Patents Biodiversity Other Cultures

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.”

Culture Challenges Common Wonder Aspect Universal Filmmaking Common Denominator Other Cultures Acknowledgment

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.”

Way Play Song Culture Models Western Other Cultures

Author:DJ Spooky

“I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.”

Wells Whole Mother Culture Culinary Recipes Expanding Other Cultures

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."”

World Culture Belief Easy Progress Violence Extremes Around The World Minorities Violence Against Women Subversive Other Cultures

Author:Gillian Anderson

“One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.”

People Thinking Way Culture Moral Issues Relation Intuition One Way Therapy Cognitive Other Cultures Cognitive Therapy

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.”

Thinking Has Beens Culture My Own Issues Particular Punishment Chinese Opponents Superficial Topics Realised Capital Punishment Other Cultures Principled Anathema

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.”

Way Country Artist Culture Rocks Honest Serious Rap Being Honest Rock N Roll Being Loved Other Cultures

Author:Master P

“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.”

Ifs May Different Stories Culture Names Lines Common Mythology Vary Different Cultures Other Cultures

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.”

Giving I Can Different Culture Situation Western Bridges Other Cultures Western Culture

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.”

Has Beens Art Sometimes Today Lasts Culture Fighting Differences Periods Achievement Tradition Jew Deny Abandon Obliged Art Of Living Great Achievement Other Cultures Idiosyncrasies

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.”

Way Feels Children Ideas Seems Happens Spiritual Culture Teach Approach Treats No Idea Like Something Other Cultures

Author:Tim Burton

“Overall do I believe exchange with other cultures is good, people going back and forth is good, trade is good. Yes, all of these things are good. But I think you have to make sure the system's working. We need to know, virtually 100 percent of the time, when you come and when you leave. It's called entry and exit.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Believe Culture I Believe Percent Trade Good People Back And Forth Exit Entry Other Cultures

Author:Rand Paul

“I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.”

Should Believe States Law Culture I Believe Should Have Constitution Dominant Other Cultures Dominant Culture

Author:Geert Wilders

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

Ifs Art Artist Culture Vision Creative Society Art Is Roots Umpires Other Cultures Art And Culture Society And Culture Art Expression

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don't interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.”

People Country Law Values Culture Policy International Related Other Countries Interfere Syria Sovereignty Respecting Others International Law Other Cultures

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.”

World Want Stills Culture India China Brazil Travel The World Other Cultures Want To Travel

Author:Queen Latifah

“We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.”

Knows Problem Culture Courses Black White Racism Overcoming Latin Sexism Pot Asian Melting Homophobia Isms Other Cultures Elitism Black White Melting Pot Ageism

Author:Octavia Spencer

“We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.”

“We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.”

Wells Helping Fall Culture Awareness Evolve Other Cultures

Author:Barbara Crampton

“It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.”

Thinking Art Faces Culture Dark Cities Special Citizens Tradition Theater Fellows Greek Sunlight Broadway Recognizing Theatrical Civics Something Special Other Cultures

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.”

Mind Culture Interesting Backgrounds Open Mind Multicultural Other Cultures

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.”

People Different Kids Culture Language Moved Raised Curious Thanks Different Place Other Cultures Culture And Language

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.”

Culture Black Genre Other Cultures Genres Of Music Black Music

Author:Miguel

“I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'”

Knows World Wells Different Age Young Culture Heaven Curious Young Age Other Cultures Different Religions

Author:Brad Pitt

“People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.”

People Knows Culture Talking Other Cultures

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!”

I Can Different Culture Cities Very Happy Different Cultures Other Cultures

Author:Yani Tseng

“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?”

Culture Literature Jokes Other Cultures

Author:Gore Vidal

“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.”

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

“Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.”

“Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.”

People Knows Humans Kind Real Suffering Culture Passion Literature Language Rich Surface Anguish Human Experience Closeness Other Cultures Veneer Mapping Below The Surface Keyholes

Author:Chaim Potok

“Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.”

Source: The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON

“One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda”

Said Culture Judging Aunt Other Cultures

Author:Eva Ibbotson

“When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.”

People Knows Want Happiness Joy Suffering Culture Brother Laughter Brothers And Sisters Great Happiness Other Cultures Others Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

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