Josh Homme Quotes

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

We have no right to thrust our advanced views on our less advanced countrymen.

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

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation …

I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

I definitely don't want to appropriate... not in an 'overly PC' way though.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

Airbnb is dedicated to empowering people and communities through healthy tourism, and we have a long tradition of supporting local projects in Asia-Pacific.

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.