#culture

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#american #billion #commodity #depending #feed

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#cultures #different #different cultures #different points #different religions

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#constitution #country #culture #described #family

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#decides #down #experience #film #had

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#because #been #culture #ever #food

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#any #australian #because #bit #bought

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#american culture #because #culture #flooded #ourselves

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#because #careful #culture #long #protect

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#church #cultures #definitely #different #go