Conrad C. Crane Quotes

If you go into a country, then you’re going to have to do something about it, and that is hard–harder than invading.

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Iranians find Americans easy to deal with because they are straightforward. That … could give Iranians an advantage in any negotiations. But for Americans to understand Iranians, they must recognize that with Iranians the mind thinks something, the head feels something else, the tongue says something else, and manners do something else. It doesn’t mean people are lying. They are just dealing with you with a different character.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

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.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

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

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.