Edward T. Hall

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ”

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against. ”

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. ”

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. ”

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. ”

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. ”

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. ”

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. ”

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human. ”

Age affects how people experience time. ”