Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

Living in Germany Africanised me.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

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

We need to preserve our cultural peculiarities; however, going to the extreme would lead to cultural isolation

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Each and every civilization in the world is in complete concordance with its people and their condition of living. If a civilization loses this equilibrium it will be lost itself. The inharmonious civilizations die because of their lack of harmony and those who survive are in complete harmony with the changing conditions. The best way of coping with these ever-increasing changes is to come together with the other civilizations.

Migrants bring their culture with them… unsurprisingly, Nigerian immigrants to other societies tend to be untrusting and opportunistic.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

China is just so different from the rest of the world.

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

Our offices across the globe may not be very similar in terms of the way they look, but they are very similar culturally.

During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross the road and enter this dream world, this vision of China.

I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.