Greig Fraser Quotes

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

Fact is, given a choice to erase or embrace Western popular culture, most Muslims would gleefully embrace it.

The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

I'm a fan of mixing cultures together.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.