Culture-identity Quote by Susan Cain

“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a…

— Susan Cain

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a…

— Susan Cain

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely…

— Charles Murray

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

— Martin Amis

I sometimes fee like the spirit of the past resurrected... After all, didn't cultural studies emerge somewhere at that moment when I first met…

— Stuart Hall

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

— John Cho

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yet a period’s character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture, the name…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon