Netta Barzilai Quotes

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

In the mid-1980s, there was a grassroots desire for American culture. Maybe it was not a definite harbinger to what was to come in terms of the fall of the Soviet Union, but it certainly gave a heads up to the global merging of the retail culture.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

In 1959, Moscow gave space to an exhibition of American consumer goods, and my father, also a member of this generation, tasted Pepsi for the first time.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies is the most American thing you can do.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

I was raised in France, and the American culture was present everywhere. On TV, on the radio.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.