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Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

— Azar Nafisi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.

— Melvyn Bragg

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

— Chris Jordan

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

— Cesar Chavez

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.

— Edward T. Hall

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

— Sam Brownback

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.

— Mem Fox

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

— Matt Stone

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

— Tessanne Chin

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

— Malcolm Bradbury

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Carol Bartz