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cultural
«We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.»
Author: Carl Bernstein
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
bubbling, coarse, cultural, for the first time, harmless, norm, norms, sub, The Culture, The Idiot
«We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
breathe, cultural, foul, ignored, intercourse, literacy, oxygen, social intercourse, thin, thin air
«Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.»
Author: John Schumaker
| Keywords:
cultural, disturbance, disturbances, domain, domains, fall into, mental disturbance, religious belief, religious beliefs, rituals, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England»
Author: Karel Capek
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cultural
«What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.»
Author: Maxim Gorky
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Jazz,
Music
| Keywords:
cultural, exploitation, jazz musician, musicians, The Abuse
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, biographies, bits, bits and pieces, cultural, drag, go to bed, impedimenta, pairs, refer, single bed, social class, social classes
«While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogation, autonomy, cultural, norm, norms, plea, rationalism, stifle, The Social