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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Gujarat has a rich culture and in my view every Indian should contribute to highlighting our heritage.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.