Will Yun Lee Quotes

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

What will remain of our cultural identity if audiovisual Europe consists of ... sitting in front of Japanese TV sets showing American programs.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

the Americanizing tasks of the public schools have passed into other hands, in part because the overwhelming majority of Americans are native-born and do not need to be 'Americanized.' As well, recent multicultural understandings of what is 'American' no longer enables the possibility of the homogenized Americanization of the past. The rise of the mass media (TV, radio, movies) has provided a set of far more powerful socialization and acculturation tools which 'Americanize' in their own way in a manner that has far greater influence than the public school and which is not only accessible to everyone but sought by everyone.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

When you travel like I do, just within our own country the atmosphere is different. The environment is different; the way people talk is different. The energy is different. And that's just material-wise, with the local culture.