American culture Quote by David Mitchell

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when…

— Howard Rheingold

“It is difficult for my fellow countrymen who have never lived abroad to understand that until a foreign man is about sixty-five, he still…

— Matthew Polly

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

— Dave Barry

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and…

— Toni Collette

“Korean-American: Have you ever noticed how most Asian-Americans are slightly brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents? It’s like being raised by monkeys—these…

— Jean Lee

People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when…

— Sheena Iyengar

“The image of Japan that obsesses otaku is in fact no more than a U.S. produced imitation.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.”

— Ryū Murakami

“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western…

— Niall Ferguson

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can…

— Jenova Chen