Quotes About Dominant Culture

#1. This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.

Derrick Jensen

#2. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz

#3. It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

Kim Chernin

#4. If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Ava DuVernay

#5. We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Edward T. Hall

#6. Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

Margo V. Perkins

#7. We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

Walter Brueggemann

#9. The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible ...

Tom Peters

#10. We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

#11. I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

Derrick Jensen

#12. Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.

Peter Thiel

#13. Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#14. Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So

Walter Brueggemann

#15. I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

Spike Lee

#16. Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Michael Eric Dyson

#17. Pluralism today - at least in America - exists without a dominant culture,

James Davison Hunter

#18. I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Holly Near

#19. When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Gus Van Sant

#20. In a world so full of trauma, why should causing offense be a goal in and of itself? When people are told they shouldn't be offended, their pain is invalidated, deemed less important than the dominant culture's supposed right to remain complacent.

Phoebe Rusch

#21. The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

Sherman Alexie

#22. Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a special people. Chosen. Favored by the gods. Gypsies, Jews
plenty of historical precedents

Orson Scott Card

#23. Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

Roland Martin

#25. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.

Bob Anderson

#26. Christians began to slip in the late 1990s, expanding the tent to include white Catholics helped perpetuate the illusion that White Christian America was still the country's dominant religious culture. But

Robert P. Jones

#27. The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

William A. Henry III

#28. I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Peter Davison

#29. The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

James Hillman

#30. Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

Jenny Holzer

#31. When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Fred Polak

#32. Now she is inviting you to a seminar at the university, where books are analyzed according to all Codes, Conscious and Unconscious, and in which all Taboos are eliminated, the ones imposed by the dominant Sex, Class, and Culture.

Italo Calvino

#33. American popular culture pivoted. Once the dominant view was that the self is to be distrusted but external institutions are to be trusted. Then the dominant view was that the self is to be trusted and external constraints are to be distrusted.

David Brooks

#34. The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

Rush Limbaugh

#35. When fear penetrates all aspects of culture and becomes a dominant driving force, the culture freezes in fixed attitudes of attack and defense, all cultural life suffers, and the Self nearly dies in the cold.

Anonymous

#36. Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Denise Duhamel

#37. Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

Sherry Turkle

#38. Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Kurtis Blow

#39. I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

Sarah Charlesworth

#40. Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Joey Badass

#41. I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

Youssou N'Dour

#42. Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Cornel West

#43. This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

William J. Clinton

#44. In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Garry Trudeau