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"Exorcism doesn't track with the level of scientific knowledge that a culture has."
"I mean, even if you don't watch Star Wars, you know who Darth Vader is. It's just like, kids are born knowing who Darth Vader is."
"The Madrid Codex contains divinatory practices, astrology information, and insights into Mayan ways of life."
"It's very much like I don't think kids today would probably even know what Sonic is."
"Understanding the way of dignities understanding them and understanding the way that they need to be interpreted is an art form."
"You should know the classics and you should know the jokes."
"It's impossible to separate culture from knowledge."
"He's a man of culture, he's a man of the meme."
"Sometimes people don't know the history of what we've been through."
"By drawing on the shared cultural knowledge between developers and players, games can bridge the gap of communication and allow for a more immersive experience."
"Remember we all remember what the Kessel run was we didn't have to go do any research there was no handout for it."
"It's quite obvious that they were way more in tune with our origins back then than we are now."
"You can't read Shakespeare without knowing the Bible."
"I think the greatest tragedy is within the next ten years you talk to the average black adults they will be able to tell you way more about Wakanda than they'll be able to tell you about the Black Panther Party."
"Grab your paper and pencils, because Mpisi from the Ndebele Tribe is about to drop some knowledge."
"But the thing is, they don’t need recursion or numbers to be great hunters and fishermen, have encyclopedic knowledge of the flora and fauna of the jungle, or maintain a social community."
"There's over 300 different dialects in China."
"Ask a kid if they know who Charizard is Pikachu is Batman Superman Spider-Man Wolverine they're going to know."
"You need to get the legendary book on game... Can you dig it?"
"By 1840 virtually all Americans knew about Santa Claus."
"The Dogan tribe of West Africa: extraordinary knowledge about the night sky."
"You a real one if you know about Church's Chicken."
"It's Mad Max, yet another movie we haven't seen so reference is going to go right over our heads again."
"I grew up traditionally. I know what to ask and how to listen in ways the white scientists don't know."
"That's a rite of passage, like if anybody's a dancer, if anybody really wants to take themselves seriously, it's like you have to know the windmill."
"Putney Swope was an amazing crazy movie. But see, I'm doing all the old stuff. Putney Swope, you guys are going, 'Oh, what's Putney Swope?'"
"Being versed in your cultural mythology makes you a better writer and creator."
"Have you ever actually watched it? There'll probably be a bunch of sci-fi buffs in the comments saying they have, but for the average person, I would absolutely put my money on the answer being no."
"Black folks know how they got here, and Indigenous people know how they got here. It's only some of us from Europe that have this mythology."
"I know my Japan culture. I'm very cultured with my Japan stuff."
"Lots of people think Halloween is an American trick-or-treat tradition, but it's a natural fact an ancient Celtic Festival going back thousands of years called Serene."
"Akita is famous for this breed of dog - it's called Akita, literally named after the prefecture."
"Even if you've never spent any time thinking or studying ancient Egypt, some of the things that you probably will nonetheless have in mind as defining features of Egypt."
"In order to get back the value in UX, we need to be passing the mentorship knowledge down so that it's cultural, so people know what goodies look like, so that we make money. That's how it has worked. It just needs to work that way again."
"There was a moment in gay culture when it was really almost part of your responsibility as a gay man or woman to know every old film that was ever made."
"But I also found out a really cool color fact about blue in Japanese culture."
"These kids don't know [__] about Star Wars."
"why would Meg say that she is this cultured woman of the world if in her late 30s she had never seen the picture of Princess Diana in front of the Taj Mahal"
"Most people, even people who aren't, who've never read a comic book in their life, they know the basic story of Superman."
"You must not have been on the Boneville train."
"Everybody knows what Mortal Kombat is. It's one of those things that's pretty much Universal."
"You can't appreciate English literature unless you know something about the King James Bible."
"This seems like something that should be taught more, at least where I grew up. Like I said, I knew nothing of this. I've never heard of this until watching this."
"Sikhs are peaceful people, right? And I'm saying it right, Sikh."
"I'm assuming it's like a classic Christmas movie in some senses but I... have not heard about this."
"I know that's something that you guys are famous for."
"'Someone said Percy's the equivalent of someone who watches anime and goes to Japan and acts like they know everything. It's fair, like, I died laughing at that comment.'"
"I love that from you, in American football, a touchdown is worth how many points?"
"Why does everyone know Eli Whitney like invented the cotton gin am I ceiling?"
"How do we not know Philo Farnsworth? We should know the inventor of the TV should be the most famous people in the world."
"the connection between Moonlight and Nightwing Powers was common knowledge in the tribe how could everyone have forgotten that even in 2000 years."
"Vodka is not Russian, it's Polish."
"Which of these is a light two-wheeled vehicle used in Asian countries? Rickshaw, final answer."
"In Greek cookery, what are ke tees? Meatballs, going to play it, final answer."
"Thai food is five flavors. There's going to be a test. Five flavors are hot, sour, salty, sweet, savory."
"The huge distance between what we're able to do as a result of inherited cultural knowledge and what we're able to do simply as individuals."
"Only the truest Mexicans in the world know about King Taco."
"Practically everybody in that city knows how to either hunt, fish, or like just generally not die."
"I feel like Canadians know more about the U.S. than Americans know about Canada. I one thousand percent agree."
"I know it's an excellent movie and I've been meaning to watch it but I'm not really a movie person so I feel like there's a lot of like really popular or like well-known movies that I just haven't seen."
"One thing that Germans know how to do is make tea."
"Our knowledge is profound and comes from living in one place for untold generations."
"Africana ways of knowing are the ultimate threat to anti-human social structures."
"Cultural Literacy: the theory that some people, places, events, objects, and ideas are so often referenced in the broad public culture that knowing about them is in some ways as essential as knowing how to read or write."
"I think a decent grounding in popular culture is very important."
"The wisdom is scattered all over the world; the Chinese have some, the Japanese got some, everyone has part of the wisdom."
"They know this world very well, they know this Egyptian style very well."
"...she is showing how elegant, how delicately raised she has been, and how knowledgeable she is about the arts."
"This remarkable building is not a mosque as is commonly assumed."