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To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

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.