cultural quotes

   Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

- E(ric) D(onald),Jr Hirsch
  Cultural Literacy: What Every  American Needs to Know, introduction.

The Aboriginal writer is a Janus-type figure with one face turned to the past and the other to the future while existing ina postmodern, multicultural Australia inwhich he or she must fight for cultural space.

- Mudrooroo formerly  Colin Jackson Narogin
  Writing from the Fringe, ch.1,'Writing from the Fringe'.

Cultural Cringe.

- ArthurAngell Phillips
  On Australia's reliance on British cultural values. In Meanjin.

Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the place†it still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.

- Godfrey Smith
  Of Brighton.The English Companion.

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le  vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

- Pierre L van den Berghe
'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

[Science] seldom proceedsinthestraightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward†are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

-James D(ewey) Watson
  The Double Helix.