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We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.

— Sherri Saum

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

— Julie Bishop

I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there's space for all of us to be who we are. There's space for us to celebrate each other and root for each other and not take each other down.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

— Laurie Colwin

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

— Zendaya

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

— Shirley MacLaine

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

— Gene Luen Yang

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

— Joyce Meyer

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

— Sarah Parcak

✗Opposing Perspectives

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

— Nathan Myhrvold