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"Engaging in conversations exposes learners to different cultural perspectives and communication styles."
"I'm black too, okay, but what was very interesting to me is that you're asking for hair care advice for a newborn. The newborn don't need nothing done with her hair besides water, maybe a shampoo once a week, and some oil on her scalp."
"The average westerner will say, 'Hey, this is like Black Mirror, this is horrifying,' right, but the average Chinese person in the village will say, 'Well, guess who won't commit crimes now?'"
"If anything, the Western liberal understanding of trans people is like catching up to India and Pakistan."
"Mental health isn't really taken that seriously in our culture."
"Different societies have had different ideas on this kind of thing."
"In the yogic culture, a woman is referred to as 'Sita' - one who knows how to wait because waiting was always considered a higher quality than doing."
"The way the Tlingits see things is everything has a soul, a spirit."
"One nation's common sense is another nation's high blood pressure." - E.B. White
"They like their government. I mean they like and trust and support their government in China."
"Black people always think, 'Oh man, it ain't enough,' and they try to put you up against the next brother."
"It's important to understand that the way people in Asian countries, especially Japan, view the supernatural isn't the same as Americans or Europeans view them."
"For many, Christmas is about tradition, connecting with family, observing faith, the joy of gifting. For others, Christmas equals terror."
"Native cultures are not laughing at Bigfoot, they're waiting for their return."
"I try not to make light although ever I mean we're doing murder of innocent will me, you know that's like you know that's not a fun it's not a fun thing."
"The corkscrew is great, but not for the reason you think."
"No place is perfect. There are good things about China. There's good things about the United States. That's just being honest."
"Russians Don't Look At Governance The Same Way Many Westerners Do."
"Death is only bad when we're thinking about it from like a Western perspective perhaps death is just the completion of a life and it's a cycle and it's moving."
"It's not ah, let's be optimistic, it's pudding. You're not eating it either way, and that's basically racially how America has been for its entire history."
"Blackness is seen as completion and seen as perfection."
"Gender is a spectrum, culturally we tend to perceive different traits and attributes as either masculine or feminine."
"We seem to ignore the European experience as valid in the United States."
"But I really like the F-150 and the Ford F-150 in the United States, of course, is regarded as a half-ton pickup, which is small. There's nothing small about it, folks."
"We don't celebrate getting older in this country, but some tribes do."
"Shambhala is perhaps a much more harmonious and exotic description than we often get of heaven."
"The Chinese way of thinking accepts unknowable things and unanswerable questions, embracing the mystery of existence."
"Women are universal we're not monolith we got different flavors."
"The black woman is the mother of all living things."
"Are we witnessing literally the exact same thing just coming from two different cultural backgrounds?"
"There's a prevailing view here that right now there's an ongoing genocide of Indigenous people because Canada has a definition of genocide that nobody else uses."
"Cancelled culture isn't hindering stand-up comedy's growth."
"In my culture, death is not the end. Rest in peace, friend."
"The American way isn't the right way for the entire world."
"They do not have a linear view of time like Europeans do."
"You say Germany, the Spanish say Alemania, and the Germans say Deutschland, and it sounds like three different countries, but it's just one."
"It's the world that makes the homosexual stories mean something because everybody's taken back by them."
"We don't need a wall between the sexes... the Quran breaks that paradigm."
"Black women do get through to you in a different way. And they have patience because, I mean, that's... And they're knowledgeable and they're nurturing, you know."
"Polygamy isn't the problem... it's human nature."
"What is insanity in one culture is prophecy in another."
"Freedom of speech is a Western construct, and it's a better idea."
"What seder Magic's too girly for you tell that to Odin."
"If you're attracted, brothers have been dealing with attitudes from our lovely ladies for hundreds of years."
"Horse meat is in fact something that has and can be consumed by us, it probably sounds hideous to most considering how much horses are loved."
"...you don't know anything about all of this stuff I'm sure British people thinking about American cars think exactly the same thing..."
"I feel like that's not true because we see so many people in other cultures who came from success stories and are able to move in a better way because they have the experience. Not just the trauma, but resources."
"The idea of a creature half man and half horse was not repulsive to the ancients who were too fond of a horse to consider man's union with him degrading."
"How do we heal? Psychotherapy is one, but there's this huge broad spectrum especially culturally about how people can heal."
"It's almost a tale of two stories; there is the written document and then there is the indigenous understanding of what the treaties mean."
"Be open to all ideas, regardless of what culture tells you about it, and then all of a sudden, you have options."
"North America saw food as the cause, Italy saw food as the cure."