More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderl...y toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when t...he Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their societ...y is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetab...le, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devo...te more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and sho...rtest ways of doing, and this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes.... Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are be...coming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties an...d cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »