Quotes about Culture

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly.

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

One of the benefits of training in America is that we can go out and there isn't that hype.

As a kid, I would never have imagined I would live in England for four years. I am very happy and contented that my daughter is growing up in a country as developed as this one.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.

Seeing a Kingdom culture established on earth is the dream of God, and it must become the dream of His people.

Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.