Alistair Cooke Quotes

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Fact is, given a choice to erase or embrace Western popular culture, most Muslims would gleefully embrace it.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

Most Americans I play for are clueless as to who Richard Ramirez was, so you can imagine how audiences in Portugal react. I'm not saying they don't enjoy the music; I'm just saying they're a little lost on some references.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you're branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you're branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

The only diversity in the Brits is with the Americans. I've been saying this for a while: for our country to do good, we need to embrace our country.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.