Cultural identity Quote by Margaret Mead

“human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.” quote by Margaret Mead — Download Open image

“human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.”

Margaret Mead

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

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Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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