Quotes About Cultural Diversity

#1. Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#3. New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

Ruta Sepetys

#4. We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

Julie Bishop

#5. When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#6. I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Lily Allen

#7. Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

Frederic Martel?

#8. All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

Bell Hooks

#9. ... the modern era should not see an end to cultural diversity, but modern people should engage with their traditions in a transformed way: they should be recognized as 'traditions,' rather than as 'truths.

Christopher Goto-Jones

#10. I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

Isaac Asimov

#11. The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

Theodore Dalrymple

#12. We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#13. Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

Gwen Jackson

#14. Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Murray Gell-Mann

#15. America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

David Alan Grier

#16. Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Tyler Cowen

#17. We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

#18. Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Fred Wilson

#19. It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

Ban Ki-moon

#20. Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

Julie Bishop

#21. Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

Phil Borges

#22. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#23. Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#24. The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

Tyler Cowen

#25. Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Mark Pagel

#26. Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. God bless all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Sophia could just as well have gutted me. In Allah's name, I drank beer for you. I dismantled my entire value system of holding Allah's word above all for you. I reinterpreted my Islamic teachings to justify being with you.

Sam Wazan

#29. Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

Tariq Ramadan

#30. Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

Ali A. Mazrui

#31. Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Yo-Yo Ma

#32. The bond of love, we unite the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. When I went to college, also in the South, I took every opportunity to celebrate my cultural background and to press for diversity efforts on campus. Still, I linked race mainly with notions of multiculturalism and inclusion and less with justice and equity.

Deepa Iyer

#34. It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.

Sebastian Coe

#35. The uniqueness of individuals is the diversity of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

Gloria Steinem

#37. Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

Bassam Tibi

#38. Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA ... a feast for the senses.

Yasmine Bleeth

#39. We experience new culture with every journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers

Thomas Sowell

#41. Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance.

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#42. I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

#43. Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan

#44. There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Arthur Keith

#45. When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

#46. Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

Yasuo Kuwahara

#47. Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

Kofi Annan

#48. Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

Amit Ray

#49. Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

David Livermore

#50. In a world of diversity, and cultural differences ... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.

Carla VanKoughnett

#51. No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

Cal Thomas