Richard Rodriguez Quotes About Culture

• The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

• México es sexo y Canadá es mente. Hay muchas cosas de Canadá que me parecen admirables: el trato a los inmigrantes, por ejemplo, sobre todo a los procedentes de Centroamérica durante las recientes guerras civiles en ese país. Pero también hay confusión: Sé de nazis croatas subvencionados por el gobierno canadiense para mantener su cultura racista. Ahí está Canadá, intentando mantener la diversidad sin saber exactamente lo que hace.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Sex, War, Knowing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Creo que el marrón marca el reencuentro de los pueblos, el fin de antiguos vagabundeos. Culturas y credos rivales conspiran con la primavera para crear hijos de una belleza, quizá de una armonía, antes desconocidas. O largo tiempo olvidada.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Spring, Thinking

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.9, Penguin

• Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Law, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

• But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Years, Two, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Los mexicanos que vienen a América hoy en día terminan oponiéndose a la asimilación. Dicen que se están "aferrando a su cultura". A ellos les digo: "Si realmente quisieras aferrarte a tu cultura, estarías a favor de la asimilación. No tendrías miedo de tragarte el inglés y de americanizarte. Seríais mucho más positivos sobre el futuro y tendríais mucho menos miedo. Eso es lo que significa ser mexicano.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, America, Mexican

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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