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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. -- Cesar Chavez
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. -- Miguel
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda -- Eva Ibbotson
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. -- Martin Scorsese
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives. -- Solange Knowles
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. -- Bruno Latour
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all. -- Gerald R. Ford
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. -- Theodore Bikel
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad. -- Richard K. Morgan
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. -- Arthur Erickson
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. -- Theodore Bikel
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. -- Dalai Lama
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races. -- Nicolas Berggruen
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. -- Suzy Amis
That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures. -- Stella Chess
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian. -- Martin Jacques
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. -- Tom Freston
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. -- Jo Nesbo
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures? -- Bruce Feiler
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. -- Edward T. Hall
As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated. -- Paulo Coelho
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. -- Junot Diaz
We do not actually know other cultures; we only know our judgements. -- Bryant McGill
Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you. -- Christian Louboutin
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. -- Edward Said
I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures. -- Bill Vaughan
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. -- Arthur Erickson
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures, -- Lauren Hutton
In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world. -- Eustace Conway
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. -- Rick Moody
I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting. -- Viggo Mortensen
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. -- David Duke
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. -- Master P
Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures... -- Wolfgang Gullich
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. -- Campbell McGrath
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States. -- Mitali Perkins
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Kansai Yamamoto
If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn't allow for women, and it's also racist - it doesn't allow for other cultures. -- Larry McMurtry
I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. -- Anna Sui
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. -- Queen Latifah
We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped. -- Arthur Erickson
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality. -- Ian Cohen
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. -- Gary Becker
The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities. -- Susan Vreeland
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. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
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. -- DJ Spooky
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic. -- Nick Harkaway
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. -- Vandana Shiva
That has been one of the best, most rewarding things about being an actor - traveling throughout the world, meeting all kinds of different people and learning about other cultures. -- Michael Ansara
I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures. -- Action Bronson
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. -- Abbas Kiarostami
It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures. -- John Boyega
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. -- Herbie Hancock
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. -- Criss Angel
Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences. -- Suzy Kassem
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality. -- Louise Erdrich
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. -- Jimenez Lai
I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am. -- Michael Franti
In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures. -- Paul K. Chappell
Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines. -- Natalie Dormer
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world. -- Charles A. Murray
One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping! -- Amanda Hearst
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains, -- John Sentamu
I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home. -- Jose Gonzalez
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures. -- Anthony Bourdain
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea. -- Deborah Bull
I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me. -- Serinda Swan
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.' -- Alan Ball
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like. -- Roxane Gay
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. -- Forest Whitaker
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. -- Marina Abramovic
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way. -- Ben Kingsley
More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information. -- Nitin Sawhney
For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way. -- Martin Jacques
I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears. -- Jose Gonzalez
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better. -- Marlene Zuk
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. -- Rem Koolhaas
We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us. -- Herbie Hancock
Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment. -- Anna Maria Chavez
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. -- Bashar al-Assad
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. -- Michael Palin
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. -- Stanley Schmidt
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture. -- Mem Fox
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind. -- Anne Waldman
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. -- Wolfgang Puck
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. -- Viggo Mortensen
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. -- Ted Allen
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?' -- Brad Pitt
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. -- Geert Wilders
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." -- Gillian Anderson
After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.' -- Paul Weller
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity. -- Derrick Jensen
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. -- Karin Slaughter
Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other. -- Vijay Mallya
I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts. -- Graydon Carter
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? -- Gore Vidal
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves. -- Eve Ensler
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. -- Todd Gitlin
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. -- Charlotte Bunch
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. -- Sebastian Thrun
There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. -- Dannel Malloy
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. -- Hans Rosling
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences. -- Rick Yune
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. -- Wade Davis
In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures. -- Sarah Ruhl
Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia. -- Guy Laliberte
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! -- Kina Grannis
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. -- Philippe Falardeau
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. -- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures. -- Angelina Jolie
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. -- Salman Rushdie
If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. -- John Stott
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. -- Huston Smith

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