Brittany Howard Quotes

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

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

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.

The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

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

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

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.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

Immigrants themselves are largely responsible for any ill-feeling towards them, because they frequently contribute to prejudice and misunderstanding through their unawareness of Australian customs and standards.

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

Working with Europeans is very difficult. They require endless respect.

A man who goes into a country must comply with the ceremonies in use there.

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

Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are very mindful of that. One can see that as restriction or as consideration for a fellow person living within a shared environment.