Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

My humour comes from acknowledging different communities. That's what my fans are responding to - they know that I 'get it.' I understand them. I take the time to understand them. I get more complaints from people when I don't talk about them. I've had guys come up to me after a show and go, 'You didn't talk about Latvians!'

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

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

The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

As an international player, the players have to adapt to the condition no matter what the situation is.

The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.