Edward T. Hall Quotes About Culture
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Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
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The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.
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We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
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Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
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We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
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