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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Continue Cultures Existed Indian Live Magical Shadows Sometimes Veneer Way Which World Years

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More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Any Being Companies Company Cultures Dealing Different Different Cultures Divided Global Going Managers More More And More Over Planet Scattered Teams

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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.

~Carol Berg

Topics: About Advice Boring Cultures Different Ever Everybody Gives Know Life Lot Me New Nobody Off One Of The Things People Piece Put Read Societies Things Want Way Were While Would Write Writers Writing You

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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

Topics: Annual Commit Cultures Different Each Electricity Enormous Festivals Frequent Genocide Groups Hunting Like Nobody Other Peaceful Pictures Shoes Show Some Speaks Taken Them Uniquely Use

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I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

~Casey Neistat

Topics: Actively Any Cultures Experienced Experiences History Know Like Others Places Pursue Things Unfamiliar Unlike

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My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.

~Cecile Mclorin Salvant

Topics: Africa America Black Born Came Caribbean Childhood Cultures Dad Daughter Different Different Cultures Experience French Got Haiti Just Lot Man Mom She South South America Through Traveled Tunisia White Woman World

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I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when people from different cultures and backgrounds start families, and how the world sees them. Most of my friends are in interracial relationships, and I just wonder what the world is going to look like for their children.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: About Am Backgrounds Boy Children Cultures Different Different Cultures Families Friends Going How Husband Just Like Little Look Lot Most People Relationships Sees Start Them Think White Wonder World I Think I Am

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

~Cesar Chavez

Topics: Contempt Culture Cultures Disrespect Does Other Own Preservation Require

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I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

~Chelsea Peretti

Topics: Both Cultures Got Italian Jewish Nose Out

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As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

~Chen-Ning Yang

Topics: About Am Awareness Both Chinese Conflict Cultures Fact Harmony Heavy Here More Product Sense Stand Tell Than Today Western You I Am

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