Francis Arinze Quotes

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

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

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

We always see a trend on TV, and others follow suit. I think 'Rangrasiya' will be a trend setter, too.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

I'd have to say that it kills me that there's a concern that 'Torchwood' has gone to America to become Americanised.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

I've never heard Donald Trump say that he watches 'House of Cards,' but I'd be really shocked if he didn't because he appears to be copying Frank more than we're copying the current administration.

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.