My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we have reduced the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to systematic theologies that insist on ideological conformity,...
As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common word such as 'castle' is a French loan word, for example; and the whole romance tradition comes from the F...
...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanist...
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of th...
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and ho...
I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness.... Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It segregates and censors based on the background of...
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I alwa...
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.
