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In our culture we tend to see sex as something that's more important to men than it is to women.
Our culture has had a skewed and medically incorrect picture of female sexuality going back centuries.
Women can sense that their culture views their bodies with confusion at best, outright disdain and disgust at worst.
We live in a culture that seems obsessed with sex.
(Applause and cheers) At Sarah Lawrence College, I worked with artists to respond to Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake; I discovered the impact of poetry and the ability to not just articulate our feelings, but to get us to work towards changing things and doing something about it, when a friend, Maytha Alhassen, invited me to Palestine ... PA: We were a delegation of artists and organizers, and we immersed ourselves in Palestinian culture, music, their stories.
See, laws never change culture, but culture always changes laws.
We feel attached to the people, the culture, the land, the food.
And then you think about our culture more broadly, and you ask: Who do we make into heroes?
You know, the expression of technology reflects the people and the time of the culture it was built in.
Engelbart came out of a pretty dry engineering culture, but while he was beginning to do his work, all of this stuff was bubbling on the mid-peninsula.
The world and all its culture reduced to bits, the lingua franca of all media.
He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture.
What kinds of people would join "a global community ... welcoming people from every discipline and culture, who seek a deeper understanding of the world, and who hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all"?
To find out, my colleague Craig Joseph and I read through the literature on anthropology, on culture variation in morality and also on evolutionary psychology, looking for matches: What sorts of things do people talk about across disciplines that you find across cultures and even species?
To think about culture variation, let's try a different metaphor.
As he earned acclaim for his fiction, Baldwin gathered his thoughts on race, class, culture and exile in his 1955 extended essay, "Notes of a Native Son."
As the test left clinics and entered popular culture its reputation among medical professionals plummeted, and the blots began to fall out of clinical use.
The book is called "The Blank Slate," based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and that all of its structure comes from socialization, culture, parenting, experience.
I'll give you a couple of representative quotes: "We can assert with some confidence that our own period is one of decline, that the standards of culture are lower than they were 50 years ago, and that the evidences of this decline are visible in every department of human activity."
And a more recent one: "The possibility of sustaining high culture in our time is becoming increasing problematical.
In my community, grandmothers are the proud keepers of our stories and cultures, and I wanted my girls to learn and embrace our rich Maasai culture.
We have in our culture in our city, an ethos where our business leaders don't just run companies, they run philanthropic institutions and nonprofits, and those folks took notice.
From fixing potholes and putting up stop signs, to promoting a friendly culture of cooperation, Milk envisioned a more personal approach to local government.
This philosophy led him to run for the city’s Board of Supervisors as the representative for his own district, which included the heart of American gay culture, the Castro.
And see, if we continue to cultivate this culture, where nobody fails or nobody is told that they will fail, then nobody's going to reach their potential, either.
Unlike any pop culture phenomenon before it, video games actually allow us to become part of the machine.
They allow us to sublimate into the culture of interactive, downloaded, streaming, HD reality.
Now, I am not telling you what I think, I am telling you what I have lived, using procedural justice to change the culture at my courthouse and in the courtroom.
And they were all dealing with the exact same struggle to preserve their language and culture.
It's the spirit of our culture.
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