Ravi Zacharias Quotes

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

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

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

One can never be certain what is in the mind of the oriental but we must leave the oriental no doubt what is in our mind.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

Secularism is the experience of the Western culture and thought. Insisting on spreading it to places where the underlying intellectual background, and the political and social reasons for its appearance are lacking, is clearly a mistake, regardless of being desirable or not.

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

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

Successful occupation will not occur unless the special circumstances of this unusual country are heeded.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.