Jack Ma Quotes

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

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

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.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

The Empress Dowager enjoins her people that only by adopting what is superior about the foreign countries can we rectify what is wanting in China.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

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.