Dominant Culture Quotes

• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  Edward T. Hall

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

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• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Opposites, Culture, Today

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• Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

  Kurtis Blow

  Hip Hop, Culture, World

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• I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

  Derrick Jensen

  Thinking, Culture, Killing

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• I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Should Have, Law

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

  Ava DuVernay

  Culture, Easy, Do It Yourself

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

  David Plotz

  Running, Political, Culture

  "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

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• As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

  Emily Barton

  Thinking, Culture, Thinker

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Mean, Way, Culture

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Challenges, Principles, Needs

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• We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

  John Berger

  Two, Progress, Three

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

  Tom Peters

  Mistake, Punishment, Culture

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• It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, Knowing, African American

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, May, Might

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture's values are - and they're not vegan!

  Tom Regan

  Thinking, Doubt, Watches

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.

  Stephen Harper

  Children, Home, School

  Stephen Harper's Statement of Apology, www.cbc.ca. June 11, 2008.

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• I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

  Holly Near

  Perspective, Culture, Dominant

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• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Zoos, Animal, Meat Eating

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Trying, Culture

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

  Kim Chernin

  Vision, Culture, Outsiders

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

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