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Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

— Chow Yun-Fat

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

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

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

— Zadie Smith

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 conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

— Denholm Elliott

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

— Michael Chang

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

— Martin Scorsese

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

— Wole Soyinka

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

— Tadashi Yanai