Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

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

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.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

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.

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

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

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

From 'Fonejacker,' multiculturalism has been a big part of my repertoire.