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Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.
The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.
During the off-season I like to travel, go places and learn different cultures. But during the season it's a lot of shows, movies and sleep.
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Music is a very communal thing, and it's been cool to see how different cultures have resonated with our music. It's been an amazing process.
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
Our nation is comprised of many different backgrounds and cultures, one of the many things that makes me immensely proud to be a South African.
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
I believe traveling to new places and experiencing different cultures and traditions really helps you to broaden your perspective towards life.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
Emotions have a way of transcending geographies and cultures and hence I don't think that an Indian woman is any different from a Turkish woman.
I would have no problem with living in China. I like discovering new places and cultures, and I would not go alone - my family would go with me.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Monaco has a vocation to embrace other cultures. Should this be forgotten, the European and American origins of my family are there to remind us.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.
By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.
Just as the cultures, lifestyle and food differ vastly from our own, music for the Tamil/Telugu audience is vastly different from that of Mollywood.
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.
I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone.
The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.
The sports are almost different cultures so saying I prefer one to the other is wrong. Rugby union is guided by a lot of rules, league by the players.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Sport is the biggest part of my life. It has allowed me to meet different people from various cultures and background and has greatly enriched my life.
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
I had never watched a live classical performance before I came to Bengaluru. I feel like this is the New York of India - a melting pot of many cultures.
I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
Police forces across America need root-to-stem changes - to their internal cultures, training and hiring practices, insurance, and governing regulations.