Bari Weiss Quotes

Every player brings something from their own culture into the collective.

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.

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.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

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 don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

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.

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

Multiculturalism isn't just a buzzword; it's not just something to debate - I am multiculturalism.

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.