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  • Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  • If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the same time, to condemn unjust practices within those cultures.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I've always been asked the question, "What is it with Australian men?" It's weird because most of my friends here [in the United States] are American men. I think there's cultural differences. It's a really American thing to kind of wax your chest. As a man it's like, "Get rid of that unsightly hair!" In Australia it's like, "Mate, what are you doing? Why would you do that? Doesn't that hurt?" So there's a few little differences that keep us.

    Hurt   Men   Thinking  
  • Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

    Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.
  • While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

    Source: www.leadersmag.com
  • If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...

    Country   Home   Thinking  
    "Memories Of The Earth As Seen From Space" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. April 20, 2007.
  • If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

    Life   Friendship   Peace  
  • The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

    Years   Two   Differences  
  • People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  • We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

    Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976
  • To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  • The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

    M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
  • At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.

    Feet   Crosses   Barriers  
  • The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.

  • I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

    Source: www.clashmusic.com
  • Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

    Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.39, Penn State Press
  • To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

  • We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

  • Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

    "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.
  • I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  • Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  • I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

    Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.46, Crown Archetype
  • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press
  • Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

    Dream   Party   Future  
    Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos
  • 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.

    "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.
  • Cultural differences - they are definitely vast in some ways. But I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

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