Sanjay Kumar Quotes

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

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.

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

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

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

The culture of Saudi Arabia belongs to a past age. It is not appropriate for the age of globalization.

Russians would make charming visitors at New-Yorke, and civilize that part of America wonderfully.

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.

Culture is a fluid, ongoing process. People tend to look at culture in a fixed time but it's constantly moving and evolving, as is the conversation between Americans and Cubans.

Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Modernization means Westernization.

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Living in Germany Africanised me.

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

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.