If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
I would love to study cultures and people.
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.