Chad Kroeger Quotes

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts.

Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

The U.S. is so important to me, Europe is important.

I find that my Israeli background actually helps me to break some boundaries because we don't have such long traditions. We took traditions from Europe, from the Middle East, and we were encouraged to explore and adapt things.

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries, it was generally the other way around.

As far as Malaysia is concerned, Singapore is a foreign country.

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.