Ruth Benedict Quote

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.


Patterns of Culture (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973) - ISBN: 9780547523927


The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural...

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural...

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural...

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural...