The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.
Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate.
Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.
I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.
I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
American culture at large has failed working mothers.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
