In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. - Jessica Alba The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. - John Desmond Bernal Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning. - Noam Chomsky As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. - Christopher Dawson According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle E...

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them. - Sherman Alexie You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. - Sherman Alexie I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. - Wes Bentley I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. - Haruki Murakami More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitu...

I foresee death by culture shock. - Woody Allen When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. - Bruce Beresford My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for. - Chris Moneymaker

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. - Andrew Mason People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting. - Greta Van Susteren

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. - Iris Chang The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. - Jinato Hu The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak. - Hu Jintao I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience. - Jet Li Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. - Jet Li My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two culture...

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. - Charlotte Bunch What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants. - Robert Hughes

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. - Alan Dundes I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film. - Sarah Michelle Gellar My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career. - Andrea Jung

You? You can't believe this? I'm the one who has to go to Artemis to save your ass. She was freaking out over Zarek, now how the hell do I explain to her that Mr. Cool-Calm-and-Collected was doing his impression of Spider Man in a bar loaded with tourists and ended up as the main feature on Tokyo news as what's wrong with American culture? Question. How many rules did you break in less than a minute? (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. - Saul Bellow Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? - Anthony Bourdain The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward - Michael Chabon High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. - Doug Coupland France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to li...