Culture
- Va people (佤), an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
- Wa (Japan) (倭), an old Chinese name for Japan
- Wa (Japan) (和), a shortened name for Japan, used in complex words
- Wa (cultural concept) (和), a Japanese social construct
- Wa (kana), romanisation of the Japanese kana わ and ワ
- Wa (unit), a Thai unit of measurement
- Walloon language (ISO 639 alpha-2, wa)
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)
“Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)