Bruce Beresford Quotes

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

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.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

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 actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

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

I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our comfort zone.

When I moved from Canada to Korea, I experienced a massive culture shock. I wasn't familiar with Korean culture at all and was very surprised at the hierarchical elements of Korean culture. However, at the time I was determined to succeed so I became a sponge and just soaked in everything I could.

It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.