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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.

— Casey Affleck

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

— Bill Gates

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

— Robert Jordan

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

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

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

— Malcolm Bradbury

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

— Tadao Ando

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

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

— Leila Aboulela

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

✗Opposing Perspectives

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

— Alan Moore