American culture Quote by Shelby Steele

“In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire enterprise of public and private education - conservatism suffers a decided ill repute.” quote by Shelby Steele — Download Open image

“In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire enterprise of public and private education - conservatism suffers a decided ill repute.”

Shelby Steele

About This Quote

Source Essay: The Conservative Mind, 2002

Conservatism is viewed negatively across media, arts, tech, and education in America.

In simple terms: Conservatism has a bad reputation in many cultural areas.

Key Takeaway

Challenge stereotypes and seek balanced perspectives.

Themes

politics media culture education public perception

Mood

skeptical reflective

Type

analytical critical

When to use this quote

political campaigns
media analysis
educational curricula
artistic collaborations

Key Concepts

conservatism social bias public discourse

Questions to Reflect On

How does media framing affect political ideology?
What steps can improve dialogue between conservatives and broader culture?

A Different Perspective

Critics argue that some conservative ideas are outdated or exclusionary.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings)

American culture Art Business Conservatism Conservatism Suffers Culture Culture Mainstream Education Education Conservatism Ill Mainstream media Media World

More by Shelby Steele

When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.

Shelby Steele

Image

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

Shelby Steele

Image

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom…

Shelby Steele

Image

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may…

Shelby Steele

Image

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

Shelby Steele

Image

No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering…

Shelby Steele

Image

And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black…

Shelby Steele

Image

Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers…

Shelby Steele

Image

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,…

Shelby Steele

Image

My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade…

Shelby Steele

Image

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

Shelby Steele

Image

We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do…

Shelby Steele

Image

The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who…

Shelby Steele

Image

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it…

Shelby Steele

Image

Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.

Shelby Steele

Image

Explore all 132 Shelby Steele quotes

More American culture quotes

“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

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“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

Image

[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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the…

Masayoshi Son

Image

“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.”

Christian Smith