Global Culture Quotes

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Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

My best friend, who I grew up with in Paris, is Indian. So, I've grown up listening to a lot of Bollywood songs and watching a lot of Bollywood movies, old and new.

I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the world.

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.

Being from Miami, you're used to the fact that your home is a vacation spot. But that's what makes Miami one of the best places in the world. We're so rich in different cultures, being so close to Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, and then you've got people who travel from all over the world just to come visit.

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

The French view globalization as synonymous with Americanization, the cultural imperialism that has filled France with bad food, bad films, and English words.