Hazel Keech Quotes

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

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

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

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

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

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

I think it's important to learn about the culture of the place where you live.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

The English are very exotic to me.

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.

I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

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

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.