The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.
We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people. . . When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn't until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I'd like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.
What I supported when I was a young man, was that the solution to bring justice to all in South Africa, was to build a little Europe there. Was to create so many nation states as there are actual nations, each with their own cultures, each with their own languages, that is what separate development tried and wanted to achieve.
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.
I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.
I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.