#cultural

The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#cultural-imperialism #history #neo-colonization #négritude #change

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#cheerleaders #cultural #i #i think #indian

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#cultural #economic #figure #heard #national

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#argentina #bombing #center #cultural #jewish

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#country #cultural #cultural war #locked #our

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late. ↗

— Ang Lee

#biggest #by the time #conservative #culturally #feelings

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#came #community #cultural #different #different ways

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country. ↗

— Jon Porter

#contributions #country #cultural #develop #economic

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#country #cultural #culture #deep #dimension