"If you really want to get sophisticated and sound natural, you have to throw your English model out the window and build a whole new conceptual web from scratch."
"Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. It came to Italy and became an institution. It came to Europe and became a culture. It came to America and became a business."
"With the majority of sales for big games now outside Japan, everything from slang words to characters' costumes must be carefully considered for a global audience."
"It's important to differentiate between adapting for cultural understanding and altering content to cater to a vocal minority."
"The story of Melusine... has traveled through time, adapting and merging with the folklore of different cultures across the world."
"In Britain, we say when in Rome, you do as the Romans do because it's understood that you don't want to make the people with whom you're living feel uncomfortable."
"It is still so fascinating to see such a deeply antiquated and conservative show attempt to handle the changing culture around it."
"He made an effort to learn the language and he didn't necessarily have to do that."
"Islam can be adapted by any culture, any people, any race."
"She basically has given her life of freedom in America up to conform to what the royals do."
"He wants to still behave like a samurai... but he has to change, or he will not save the island."
"What does it really mean? So one thing that I think about all the time because I work out a country so often is that if I'm shooting outside of country it should not look like I'm in New York."
"It's not that out there to assume that as [we] become culturally acclimated to new almost but not quite humans on-screen will find them less creepy."
"It's more about trying to create a new way of thinking with music and really it's an old way of thinking but it's just bringing it into our time."
"House Indoril: from ancestral honor to religious fervor."
"I think a new crow made today with today's sensibilities has the right cast and everything, I think it has a lot of potential to be better than the original."
"Cultures adapt to changing contexts; there are no straight lines from past to present."
"The best way to improve your pronunciation to sound more American, or if you want to sound more British or Australian, is to shadow."
"I turned into a quote-unquote pasty Englishman."
"England does feel like home now... I feel at peace."
"If the conversation is about an experience you end the conversation smoothly like a native English speaker by following these three steps."
"The name behind the poker float stage was itself born out of the localization process."
"Jake Lockley being the third alter of Mark Spector, Steven Grant, in the comics, known as being a New York taxi driver in this show, changed to be a Spanish-speaking deadly assassin limo driver."
"A good localization makes players feel right at home."
"Ella Fitzgerald fit no available or desirable cultural type...[People] didn't want to be her or have her. And so she turned herself into a force of music."
"Bale speaking Spanish fluently, contrary to his time at Real Madrid."
"Zen Buddhism is a totally independent outgrowth of Mahayana Buddhism that's very different from how Buddha probably imagined it, but Zen is one of the most beautiful things ever made."
"Their culture has adapted a way of life to survive and even thrive in the harsh conditions of the planet."
"I remember coming to America the first time and something as simple as waking up in the morning when everyone else is waking up I didn't experience it for two years."
"The Starks are never comfortable in the crowded capital – Jaime once said Starks are made of ice, and when they come south, they melt."
"Islam today... producing citizens... ready to get on the Western values bandwagon."
"If you want to sound more American: 'This salad is absolutely the best salad I've ever eaten in my whole life.'"
"Even our Prophet adopted cultural practices if they didn't contradict Sharia."
"The versatility of this recipe is what gave way to the many different styles of bone mold armor found throughout Morrowind."
"In one of his more, let’s say unconventional moments, Peter even enacted a beard tax to encourage Russians to cut their beards because the clean shaven look was in vogue in Western Europe."
"Being able to bring these characters to life for a Western audience as a western studio is quite quite an exciting thing."
"Much of the content in the Hebrew Bible is based on material taken from other nearby cultures, but the ancient Israelites always put their own unique spin on it."
"We need to make therapy a little bit more like the black church."
"This was likely done to remove a religious references in the anime and avoid angering certain American groups."
"Because the people of Timbuktu had digested so much Islam, they were able to give it real meaning and accessibility for the people."
"Humanity is a lot like an aging movie star, grappling with all the newness around itself."
"Tokyo Ghoul: not just a story, but a cultural phenomenon with cafes, exhibitions, and more."
"I don't like the idea of censoring and changing the way that a book has been written to try to ameliorate modern-day woke standards."
"Living in the Philippines has taught me patience."
"The Ashvata mythology will bring us uniquely Indian versions of many of the classic mythic concepts associated with such cosmic world trees, which, as I mentioned, includes flipping the cosmic tree upside down."
"The recreation turned Hua Mulan into a palace guard protecting the emperor more or less, and that is not what the Chinese people grew up hearing. It basically bastardized the entire story."
"We are heading towards an Attack on Titan version of Ragnarok."
"Spaghetti meatball, it's American Italian cuisine."
"American pizza has become its own thing now. It's just the American pizza, which is good."
"Black people can turn anything into a negro spiritual."
"You gotta travel everywhere, change your comedy, different perspective on everything."
"If the guy next to me invents the light bulb, I'm going to use the light bulb. And if somebody says to me, 'Well, it's accepting white culture,' my feeling is, I just want that light bulb, freedom."
"It's like Wonder Woman but Filipino version."
"The world of Galar is charming and is Pokemon's interpretation of Britain I've dreamed of since I was a kid."
"The idea that individuals are doing this sort of musical codeswitching, literally changing their preferences when they listen to different styles, is amazing."
"What you guys are witnessing is the invention of American poutine."
"It's not easy when you come to this America, your brain has to walk quick, quick, quick."
"If you sit there and you watch Dragonball in Japanese from start to finish... it's almost impossible to not get used to her voice."
"Regular whipped cream? For those celebrating Ramadan, coconut whipped cream and strawberries are the way to go."
"Abolishing the eight gym formula for trials that are well kind of gyms and Kahuna battles."
"Even if they make it make sense, like how it makes sense that the Nords could be imperialized and stuff by now, you know it's 200 years in the future like you know all of that could happen feasibly. It still would have been a better setting."
"Mind Life Institute is just a project of mining, processing Buddhism into a field of mind sciences for the West."
"Every time in the UK... it's a British version of that."
"India's choices in 1947 and thereafter actually took what were Western values and Western practices and made them near-universal."
"The gardeners have to go to the jungle; Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world."
"You gotta speak a little bit of the language if you're gonna go into cartel territory."
"Myths have always been evolving... stories can change and grow and evolve over time."
"A legend survives when it is able to adapt to the current cultural moment."
"This is a long-term thing, it takes a long time for people to switch their culture and religion but it's very worth doing."
"Mark Chang: from alien invader to friend, navigating Earth isn't easy."
"I think our guys are top-notch... We make all the same things, the same food, the same design without the western owners."
"Science fiction is the only contemporary genre of storytelling that's so willingly acknowledges the increasing rate of cultural and technological change."
"Chinese Americans knew people wanted comfort food so they adapted and adjusted until even racists couldn't stop coming for their fried chicken balls."
"American Chinese food is authentic, it's just not traditional."
"Taco Bell is just the Mexican version of Italian fast, and guess what, Josh? Yeah, America fell for it. Delicious."
"Make a new tradition. Honor the traditions that you remember from the past, but go beyond them."
"Almost every other adaptation of Dracula has preferred to make the character suave, seductive, romantic."
"Life in Namibia has been just like a beautiful surprise... Although it comes with challenges, it's an opportunity that I really have to try not to take for granted."
"He was used to the free-for-all streets of Saigon."
"Language can be adopted by people and given new meaning across different time."
"It's a rough place, so I said you should learn rap music, learn slang, invent a backstory for yourself where you were Sam B from Oakland."
"Perhaps you can alter it so that it's more profound for your culture or group."
"Can you imagine? Moving to a new country and having to feel like you need to assimilate to the country, but also stand true to your values. That is like one of the hardest things to do."
"It's genuinely trying to be something different but still in the same tradition."
"Thor and his cult, when they are introduced in Scandinavia, Thor really begins to lose the status of warrior deity to become one of fertility."
"It has to be a cultural change, not legislative."
"The cultural things that we don't know to look for or don't know to ask about can be a real big shock."
"I went from Corporate America conforming code switching to entertainment conforming and code switching."
"They’re putting the 'modern' in Modern Simpsons."
"Respect to anyone who's playing in a region that is not their home region and is trying to learn another language."
"I'm turning a collection of Greek tragedies into a southern comedy."
"Blue traffic lights in Japan originated from linguistic distinctions between blue and green, complying with traffic laws while reflecting language evolution."
"It's like traveling to another country, you've been there for a little while, you're sick of sukiyaki boiled cockroach pupa, you're like, 'you know what I could just go for a hamburger.'"
"Adaptations happening for many of our favorite stories into other mediums."
"Disney willingly changed how the force worked at its core to appease China, a country that doesn't really like Star Wars."
"Learning to adapt in a new world and letting go of old ways of life."
"My aim really is to become your glue, your Google translate for skincare for skin of color."
"By changing to fit the mood of the times we might get a few more Dusty Millennia yet."
"How you can learn to say y'all and what stop it."
"He wasn't given that name at Birth but rather the French version of the name Ator when he was christened in Bordeaux, France in 1750."
"The business Round Table statement may be a continued evolution of corporate culture and strategy."
"Etiquette is not archaic because, just like a language, it changes and evolves over time."
"Toriyama's way of making Goku a character who's sort of an iteration of Sun Wukong."
"It's too fast like sometimes the technology just changes too quickly right for the culture to begin to adapt to it."
"It's almost like Panda Express-izing Filipino food."
"If you lived in Paradise for most of your life, then suddenly had to move to the middle of the Midwest, how well do you think you'd fare?"
"A high value man is whatever is contextually makes that guy a high value guy in whatever culture that he happens to be."
"She did really try to adapt this British stiff upper lip keep calm and carry on you know never complain never explain but let's remember she's American you know we we like to complain."
"Maybe like if we're gonna have a black Ariel, maybe she's from somewhere where she can stand, so swimming is not even an issue."
"Being able to speak just a little bit of the local language gives you so much more confidence."
"People's behaviors are often survival tactics learned in childhood, even if they're now living in a new country."
"Our job is to like he said deliver the intention and stay true to the performance but also making it something that is accessible to a Western audience."
"America, it made you happier? Yeah, I'm like, I'm supposed to be blind there brain soup."
"Japanese dub exists for the game, expanding its reach."
"It is digitalization with Chinese characteristics."
"Translation ain't a one for one game." - Narrator
"You're trying to have a successful show in the West... You're trying to take the story of One Piece and bring it to the West."
"Don't feel strange about strange things. You've got a kura, because we're in strange times."
"A huge shout out is the Atlas localization team as we mentioned is just a huge part of the Persona world and it's really what helps bring these characters to life."
"All different kinds of places around the world have been introduced to SPAM and have incorporated it into the cuisine, culture and diet."
"It's almost pointless to even use these terms. You know there's some original core of truth but if it gets heavily modified over time they'll what does purism matter to me as far as those terms actually go."
"I'm becoming American... Do you agree with me that a big part of humor is kind of being a dick?" - "A big part of humor is kind of being a dick."
"The Northman... it's a very good adaptation of Norse culture... the creator did an excellent job."
"I would rather eat the falafel in like a lafa wrap just like a burrito."
"They took Tiana and her prince and then added a bit of spice."
"We're gonna win the champions league, is this team even if I have to sign a bunch of Chinese players because it's a board mandate."
"Medusa is a perfect example of how mythology continuously evolves, even to this day."
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
"So whatever society you're in, adapt to those manners, and those become your new manners."
"You have to learn to adjust to think in a Japanese way, which will happen by itself naturally."
"The film was very brazen in its ripping off, but it is sort of fun to see an American film filtered through another country's own aesthetic sensibilities."
"If you're in Rome, you're supposed to do what Romans do."
"Nadia faces Islamophobia almost immediately when she starts attending the new school."
"Being able to adapt to the culture that was already established."
"But what I didn't realize at the time was that this whole idea of trying to become a cowgirl as a European would be much more complicated and difficult than what I had expected."
"God adapts and molds to the culture of the human, hinting again at the human origins and perceptions of the deity."
"The painter also considers the language barrier to be the biggest problem of living with the British."
"Sorry, you don't have to apologize, okay? It's just very strange you surely you pickled some English along the way, okay?"
"...so some of the challenges we've lived in Spain for before for example so we were used to that sort of amanya attitude or amanya here we're used to sort of that laid-back culture and the fact that some things take time."
"Americans overcame a lifelong revulsion, an aversion to raw fish suddenly, they wanted it."
"It turns out that many of the foods we think of as Jewish are actually borrowed or adapted from other European ethnic groups."
"A dish created by the Scots, perfected by West Africans in the United States, and adapted to the palates of just about everyone everywhere."
"Every other country that you move to gives you another layer, you learn the culture, you learn the people, you learn new skills."
"Sure, there's some ugab boogas and shua in there, but in English, they turn red and they turn gold."
"We will have to first learn how to read American newspapers."
"Cool thing about Taco Bell in China is you can get Corona bicardi Jose quvo so they actually made it like a proper Mexican restaurant almost."
"The best advice is just when you come here observe what the Portuguese are doing and do as they do."
"The idea here is he's a bronx policeman, who turns into this, and he has to learn how to deal with his western society and culture and with his newfound asian, and if he solves it he can have peace, he makes the world a better place about east so that's kind of the theme."
"You can adapt the good festive elements of a culture to the worship of God, rather than the worship of demons."
"...how fast Hawaiians are able to selectively appropriate, adapt a foreign idea, and make it something uniquely Hawaiian."
"...our kupuna were so brilliant at taking in the best of the honua and bringing it home to hawaii but also keeping it unique to who we are and not losing track of that."
"What I want to talk about today is the role that cultural adaptation plays in this transformation."
"It shows to me - I marvel at Paul the Apostle, a well-rounded man suited not just for Jerusalem, not just for Galatia, not just for Rome, but also for Athens, the cultural epicenter of the world."
"You truly find out who you are when you have to leave your culture."
"There will be culture shock there will be adjustment and there will be acceptance but in all these things if you learn friendship from the beginning it will carry you through."
"If you're gonna copy a pagan god, you gotta make sure you do it in such a way that the people you're talking to do not recognize it as one of those deities."
"The letter 'Ö' lends itself as the name of a river in the United States."
"The Chinese quickly understood that, to succeed in the states, they needed to develop community."
"And you had to speak crappy Spanglish because everybody that you worked with was Mexican. And like, that's how I grew up. I grew up in extraordinary circumstances just because of what my dad did and what my uncles did."
"Power Rangers is pretty much like toned down for the sake of kids for Westerners or for America. I mean, no parent wants to have their three four-year-old watch the show full of blood."
"He's like, 'Oh, he's like he's like all into America now. He's like I want to do the most American thing and then he like went and celebrated the Fourth. Is it the Fourth of July?' And then he like dawned on him what the Fourth of July was the celebration."
"The culture hasn't adapted one iota to cope with that change."
"Despite its specific 7th century Arabian origins, Islam still works today, and you can practice it in Albuquerque just as easily as you could in 7th century Medina."
"When I first moved here I didn't know any hiragana or Katakana which is like the alphabet and I didn't understand how important that was or how helpful it is when you live here."
"Think Shonen Jump, but here in the West."
"You just don't know what's going to happen, you can't really plan for dealing with a whole new culture and a whole new language."
"King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is nothing but ancient Egyptian knowledge woven into European mythology."
"I have turned into one of those people that has lived in Germany... and now I am the person that brings tea with me to the United States for comfort."
"Live like a Roman when you're in Rome; don't try to recreate your old life in a new country."
"When in Rome, you do as the Romans do."
"There's a certain kind of Chilean that just loves the Mormon way, loves the church, and they flourished under it."
"Stories then, fairy stories, legends, myths, heart stories amount to a reservoir where we keep new ways of responding that we can adopt when the conventional and current ways wear out."
"When in Rome, or in this case, Sweden."
"He has adapted pretty well to the recent culture."
"Get used to the foreign culture, learn a little bit about it in advance."
"One of the great things about Reboot is it says, 'Here's a tradition, what are you going to do with it? How do we reboot our traditions? How do we keep our traditions alive?'"
"I'm so LA now, I love a good Starbucks."
"We have to find a balance between biblical accuracy and cultural relevance."
"Be involved, be responsible where you are in the new culture where you find yourself."
"When you're in Rome, you do as the Romans do."
"Adaptation to the local culture is critically important in the supply chain."
"You don't take yourself too seriously; we rip the piss over here, you can handle it."
"When in Rome, do what the Romans do."
"Every culture adapts to its own needs."
"When in Rome, do as the Muppets do."
"My obligation is to make sure that whatever changes happen in our communities, I respond to them and help our culture move forward."
"It's definitely crazy like if your parents come here as first generation, they don't really know the life that you're living."
"I'd live in bloody London. Yeah. I'd be British Elliott, everyone's favorite."
"When in Spain, do as the Spanish do."
"He quickly became fluent in Spanish as a way to fit in."
"Personally, what I think is more interesting than these simple dubs, and many people think this way too, are the various international adaptations of the show that have made their way onto the airwaves in other countries."
"The longer you're here, the more you understand how people communicate."
"They didn't think of themselves engaging in something like devil worship, they were simply trying to figure out how to live in this new and strange place."
"The family embraced the Norwegian lifestyle and learned to ski."
"A soft landing place overseas is a location where a foreigner...will feel enough cultural similarities to their home country...so they have fewer moment by moment frustrations and are more easily able to adapt."
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do," she said with a smile.
"I am also not used to eating with my hands, but you know what, it's better, I like it."
"Our culture is not hard to adapt because Filipinos are very flexible."
"When in Rome, you do things that Romans do."
"I have completely changed the way that I shop for groceries because of living in Germany."