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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand
You
Back
Appropriation
About
Talk
Go
Cultural
Greeks
Want
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Gregory Bateson
Learning
Generation
Culture
People
Values
Parents
Geared
Attempt
Fails
Because
Pass
Always
Cultural
Replicate
Human
Next
Transmission
Next Generation
Skills
Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
Hamza Yusuf
Women
People
Men
States
Muslim
Some
Both
Islamic
How
Issue
West
Cultural
Oppressive
Realise
Many
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard
Great
Change
Political
Other
Statement
Way
Machine
Hierarchical
Driven
Exclusive
Aesthetic
Shifts
Cultural
Optimism
Political Statement
Suspect
Rolls
Order
Social
Much
Social Order
Many
Prepare
Populist
Largely
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
Jesse Jackson
Politics
Freedom
Free
Press
Those
Unaccountable
Write
Simply
Columns
Name
Impose
Cultural
Who
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
Khaled Hosseini
Music
Musicians
Culture
Destruction
Films
Books
Giant
Vandalism
Scene
Devastating
Had
Buddhas
Countless
Most
Taliban
Cultural
Infamous
Tapes
Effect
Afghan
Artistic
Jailed
Being
Burned
Painters
Paintings
Acts
Filmmakers
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Class
Together
Oppression
Gender
Society
Systems
Ability
Examples
Only
Bound
Cultural
Influenced
Patterns
Race
Ethnicity
Include
Interrelated
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood
Beginning
Nationalism
Boring
Am
Cultural
Oppressed
Canadian
Really
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
Nikki Giovanni
Embracing
Hip-Hop
Cultural
Expression
What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.
Paul Keating
Adversity
Courage
Independence
Sacrifice
Legend
Own
Our
Troops
Cultural
Did
Bravery
Ingenuity
Notions
Reinforce
Resilience
A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.
Peggy Johnson
Respect
Integrity
Values
Lost
Others
Those
See
Excellence
Tend
Instead
Leaders
Like
Attributes
Halo
Undervalue
Cultural
Effect
Lot
Quickly
Get
Behaviors
Where
Then
Certain
Companies
Map
Specific
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
Peter L. Berger
Culture
Emergence
Global
Also
Globalization
Cultural
Phenomenon
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Time
Nature
Knowledge
Science
Better
Political
Invention
Understanding
Our
Further
Relevant
Data
More
Economic
Fact
Instruments
Scientific
Scientific Knowledge
How
Context
Due
Cultural
Provisional
Goes
Social
Works
Hone
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Day
Values
Diversity
Clothes
Every
Our
Immersed
Faces
Point
Rituals
Almost
Attitudes
Smells
Cultural
Cultural Diversity
Traditions
Beliefs
No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.
Roxane Gay
Critics
Voices
No-One
Cultural
Use
Helped
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
Tariq Ramadan
History
Diversity
Country
Rich
Other
Unlike
Promise
Religious
Make
Malaysia
Surprising
Cultural
Any
Land
Full
Compelling
Fragility
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee
Property
Legal
Face
Important
Ownership
Society
Complex
Open
Open Source
Issue
Issues
Private
Source
Cultural
Private Ownership
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Whole
Here
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
Virginia Postrel
Happiness
Alone
Together
Will
Long
Carries
Some
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Host
Absorb
Individuals
Mortar
Powerful
Mosaic
Conceived
Most
Most Powerful
Cultural
Left
America
Endure
Influences
Held
Inherited
Groups
Each
Whom
Chosen
Ever
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush
Freedom
History
Justice
People
President
Bitterest
Risky
Journalism
Voted
Wishes
Contemporary
Policies
Blocked
Been
Cultural
Iran
Iranian
Should
Means
Ignored
Who
Incident
Activities
Why
Millions
Millions Of People
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
Aberjhani
World
More
Poets
Names
Most
Known
Because
Cultural
Celebrated
Authors
Artists
Arts
Movements
African-American
Specific
Among
Association
When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.
Adnan Sami
Love
You
People
Become
Boundaries
Nonexistent
Geographical
Cultural
Contributions
Love You
Your
The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.
Adrienne Mayor
God
Great
Library
People
Medicine
Mediterranean
Monumental
Giants
Minor
All-Around
Temple
Seeking
Vast
Altar
Around
Came
Cultural
Cures
Gods
Famous
Center
Theater
Asia
Decorated
Sculptures
Spectacular
Defeating
Olympian
It's about cultural forums and movements and collectives of people taking a stand. That's all activism is.
Adwoa Aboah
People
About
Taking
Cultural
Movements
Stand
Forum
Activism
As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.
Ahmed Zewail
Cause
Problems
Believe
East
Clash
Both
West
Cultural
Product
Fundamental
Basis
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.
Ahmet Davutoglu
Time
Freedom
Prosperity
Our
Between
Countries
New
Make
Cultural
Historic
Revival
Stability
Fewer
Order
Transform
Region
Regional
Should
Less
Barriers
Now
Societies
Violence
I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.
Alain Ducasse
You
Fight
People
World
Differences
Nothing
Thinking
Meet
Enriching
Way
Out
Must
More
Spread
Go
Singular
Cultural
Than
Different
Preserve
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