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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.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

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.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

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

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.