--- title: "5 Culture Child Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Culture Child quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Culture Child sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/milan-kundera-120_children_high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-t_80079.jpg" --- > [High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/milan-kundera-120_children_high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-t_80079.jpg) > [“Children all over the world do ridiculous, borderline dangerous things, and no one around them questions it, because it's ingrained in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mara-wilson/children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculous-borderline-dangerous-things/) [Mara Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mara-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f6/mara-wilson-4981_children_children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculou_154112.png) > [I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-chantal-claire/i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-interesting-concept-having-an/) [Marie-Chantal Claire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-chantal-claire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/marie-chantal-claire-69491_adaptable_i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-intere_303550.jpg) > [“Culture is a vehicle for true self-expression. The flowering of individual creativity takes place in the context of culture. When a child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expression-the-flowering-of/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/gabor-mat-1410_children_culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expre_1630105.jpg) > [The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/the-modern-child-may-early-in-his-or-her-existence-have-natural/) [Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/thomas-merton-231_absorption_the-modern-child-may-early-in-his-or-her_3179590.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture-child/#itemlist", "name": "Culture Child Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . .", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Milan Kundera" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/milan-kundera-120_children_high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-t_80079.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/milan-kundera-120_children_high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-t_80079.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/milan-kundera-120_children_high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-t_80079.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with…” — Milan Kundera", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Children all over the world do ridiculous, borderline dangerous things, and no one around them questions it, because it's ingrained in their culture. So it was with child acting in Southern California.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mara Wilson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mara-wilson/children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculous-borderline-dangerous-things/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f6/mara-wilson-4981_children_children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculou_154112.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f6/mara-wilson-4981_children_children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculou_154112.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f6/mara-wilson-4981_children_children-all-over-the-world-do-ridiculou_154112.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Children all over the world do ridiculous, borderline dangerous things, and no one around them questions it…” — Mara Wilson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marie-Chantal Claire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-chantal-claire/i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-interesting-concept-having-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/marie-chantal-claire-69491_adaptable_i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-intere_303550.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/marie-chantal-claire-69491_adaptable_i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-intere_303550.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/marie-chantal-claire-69491_adaptable_i-m-a-third-culture-child-it-s-an-intere_303550.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm a third-culture child. 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Although this culture is broadcast through media controlled by adults, it is the children and youth whose tastes and preferences it must satisfy. They, the young, wield the spending power that determines the profits of the culture industry — even if it is the parents’ incomes that are being disposed of in the process. Advertisers know subtly well how to exploit the power of peer imitation as they make their pitch to ever-younger groups of customers via the mass electronic media. In this way, it is our youth who dictate hairstyles and fashion, youth to whom music must appeal, youth who primarily drive the box office. Youth determine the cultural icons of our age. The adults who cater to the expectations of peer-oriented youth may control the market and profit from it, but as agents of cultural transmission they are simply pandering to the debased cultural tastes of children disconnected from healthy adult contact. Peer culture arises from children and evolves with them as they age. Peer orientation breeds aggression and an unhealthy, precocious sexuality. The result is the aggressively hostile and hypersexualized youth culture, propagated by the mass media, to which children are already exposed by early adolescence. Today's rock videos shock even adults who themselves grew up under the influence of the “sexual revolution.” As the onset of peer-orientation emerges earlier and earlier, so does the culture it creates. The butt-shaking and belly-button-baring Spice Girls pop phenomenon of the late 1990s, as of this writing a rapidly fading memory, seems in retrospect a nostalgically innocent cultural expression compared with the pornographically eroticized pop idols served up to today's preadolescents.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabor Maté" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expression-the-flowering-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/gabor-mat-1410_children_culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expre_1630105.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/gabor-mat-1410_children_culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expre_1630105.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/gabor-mat-1410_children_culture-is-a-vehicle-for-true-self-expre_1630105.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Culture is a vehicle for true self-expression. 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