Sharmila Tagore Quotes

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

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

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

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.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Living in Germany Africanised me.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.