The history of otaku culture is one of adaptation, of how…

“The obsession with Japan in otaku culture did not develop from Japanese tradition, but rather emerged after this tradition disappeared.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after the destruction…

— Hiroki Azuma

“The presence of otaku culture is a grotesque reflection of the fragility of Japanese identity. This is because the "Japanese" themes and modes of…

— Hiroki Azuma

The nature of culture is evolution. The practice of culture is adaptation.

— Kelvin Chau

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the…

— Stephen L. Carter

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

— Anonymous

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

— Omid Djalili

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

— Rafael Vinoly

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

— John Hodgman

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

— Mario Batali

“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

— Salman Rushdie

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

— Bill Bryson

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

— Tyler Cowen

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

— Oliver Markus Malloy