Marley Dias Quotes

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

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.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Culture makes all men gentle.

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

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.

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.

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

I feel Delhi always has a problem in understanding different regions and cultures.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.