Cultural Erosion Quotes

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

We are committing cultural suicide. The barbarians at the gate will only need to give us a slight push, and the emancipated body of Western civilization will collapse in a heap.

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

The diversity, individualism and mobility that characterize developed economies -- especially in the era of globalization -- mean that more of our lives is spent among strangers …. in a developed country such as Britain is that we not only live among stranger citizens but we must share with them. We share public services and parts of our income in the welfare state, we share public spaces in towns and cities where we are squashed together on buses, trains and tubes, and we share in a democratic conversation .… All such acts of sharing are more smoothly and generously negotiated if we can take for granted a limited set of common values and assumptions. But as Britain becomes more diverse that common culture is being eroded.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

Our country is losing its self-esteem.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

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

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.