#culture

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#as far as #because #bunch #concerned #culture

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#building #culture #democracy #election #event

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#boy #day #fortune #got #large

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#being #black #confront #culture #demonic

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#blood #culture #indian #much

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? ↗

— James Hillman

#away #being #car #children #competitive

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#approach #considered #culture #i #may

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#apart #class #culture #ethnic #fact

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. ↗

— Dee Hock

#another #becomes #centuries #country #culture