The Great Khali Quotes

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

One can never be certain what is in the mind of the oriental but we must leave the oriental no doubt what is in our mind.

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

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

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

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.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

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.

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

Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.