The East is tougher than a lot of people give us credit for.
We can’t pretend that we are not a nation of immigrants. We always have been. It’s been our greatest strength… The majority of babies born in this country are the children of immigrants and minorities …. No other nation on earth can handle these demographics.
We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.
In times of stress, it is easy to look to one's weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London's cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.
For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.
The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.
The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
India survived through the centuries by combining cultural imperviousness with extraordinary psychological skill.
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.
I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.
If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.
Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
The secret of America is compromise. Compromise is a sign of weakness in any other country. In America it is a great strength.
The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
