John Barnes - Cultures Quotes

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Almost every culture in the Thousand Cultures had some wisdom literature, and much of it was the same between any two cultures.... Cultures tend to be alike in much of what they think are the basic virtues, but one of the ones they are most alike in, though it rarely appears in their book of wisdom, is: Distrust strangers, fear foreigners, dread novelty.

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If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.

John Barnes