LO3: Cultural Views

Goal 3 Culture & Communication – 2011 - Semester 2

Outcome 4

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own ideas:

Cultural Views

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight D. Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	People must be sticking to their principles even they got lots of privileges, because they might lose their principles if they didn’t be aware of the seriousness of the matter, witch that mean their society could lose its tradition and culture.
Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	People should give each other and share their benefits because that lead to connected and  successful community.
Sheik Zayed	Who does not have past, he doesn’t have present.	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
Amin Maalouf	Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.	People sometimes goes in deep thinking on who they have to give their loyalty (god, presidents or parents) .  witch let them doubt on their beliefs and that lead to internal conflicts.
Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	as much  people are educated and aware of what is happening as they will be on the top of the world list.
Lankford	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	Traditional things must be respected by men and women and they must be careful of what they are adding to it (clothes , language, behavior).
ML King Jr.	God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men .He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	People must help each other to survive and to have a fair life.
Frank Borman	When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	The relationship between States and their people have to be as brother and more, because that can put an end to the world’s problems like, war, famines and jealousy between each other.
DD. Eisenhower	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheikh Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	Arabs should learn a lesson from the historical events and became on one hand.
Martin Luther King Jr.	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	He means in ‘my children’ the next generations that are coming after them, they should have a fair live and be judge as white people on their act not on their color or skin.
Amin Maalouf	For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.	Many people have a beautiful faces but they lacks character and its content and vice versa, so judge people on what inside not outside.