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Deep Culture Quotes

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Man must now embark on the difficult journey beyond culture, because the greatest separation feat of all is when one manages to gradually free oneself from the grip of unconscious culture.

Edward Hall

 

 
I have spent my life studying the lives of faraway peoples, so that (we) might better understand (ourselves).

Margaret Mead

 

The culture clash of globalization creates two contrasting illusions. One is that “our” way of life is under siege from outside. The other is that culture and cultural values are no longer relevant in a post-modern world. The first illusion is founded on a fear of deep cultural difference, while the second results from a naïve blindness. Even many well-traveled, well-meaning internationalists do not recognize the hidden influence of their own deep cultural conditioning.

Joseph Shaules

 

The adaptive unconscious is part of the architecture of the mind that is inaccessible to conscious awareness. People can no more observe how they are unconsciously categorizing their environments, setting goals, and generating intuitions than they can observe how their kidneys work.

Timothy Wilson

 

Custom did not challenge the attention of social theorists because it was the very stuff of their own thinking: it was the lens without which they could not see at all.

Ruth Benedict

 

The fact of the matter is that the “real world” is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

                                                                                    Edward Sapir

Life’s deepest lessons don’t come from seeking that which is special within the individual. The greater and more empowering transformations come seeing clearly how many of our opinions, thoughts and deepest beliefs are predictable – a result of deep cultural conditioning.

Joseph Shaules