I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
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I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.
I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.
Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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