Shame cultures are concerned with reputation.

The first ingredient is to create a culture of passionate concern for the greater good.

Very civilized

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

I also had a passion for Africa.

No religion can demolish that by indoctrination.

Another reason although I think, perhaps, the most powerful reason why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo that we've erected against slowing down.

It will dry up inside.

We are upset about the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

There is no Photoshop involved. (Laughter)

I don't know if I want to live in a world where knowledge is obsolete.

Our imagination might shrink our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons.

I believe, number one, it's complacency.

My beliefs...

There's a museum, of course, on the Mall in Washington, right next to Lincoln and Jefferson.

In India it was just impossible to paste.

And one of the leaders of this effort, and he argued that the test measured native intellectual ability.

We sent economists in the Soviet Union with privatization plans when it broke up, and what they really lacked was social trust.

Let me draw my balance sheet.

If you had any cultural inclinations this evening.

So what's happening here?

Deciphering the script is not just an intellectual puzzle it's actually become a question that's become deeply intertwined with the politics and the cultural history of South Asia.

Okinawa is different from Japan culturally.

Its the bread and butter of it all

I have found no evidence that Americans don't get irony.

I'm not interested in material gains.

You didn't come up with the idea On your own, McGee.

There is wonderful work happening in this country.

And they are working with me up to today.

The disturbing results of the recent Japanese elections should inspire us intellectually and culturally should inspire us intellectually and culturally should inspire us intellectually and culturally to fight tooth and nail in a non violent manner to fight tooth and nail in a non violent manner against nationalists who are to politics what nuclear is to health.

At this moment in time, the youth in the Arab world are much more wiser and capable of creating the change than the old including the political and cultural and ideological old regimes.

I'm not interested in material gain.

I am not interested in material gain.

Physical changes are directly related to aging.

He is indifferent to worldly success.

But, someone might argue, that's natural beauty.

And again, here, you see Barbie.com, but also, very quickly,

Why? Why are we looking up? Is it because it's heaven?

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

We looked at psychological involvement how much empathy did you feel for the other person?

They've gone missing these feelings have gone missing.

You see, we also learn that experts are located, are governed, by the social and cultural norms of their times whether it be the doctors in Victorian England, say, who sent women to asylums for expressing sexual desire, or the psychiatrists in the United States who, up until 1973, were still categorizing homosexuality as a mental illness.

Even if you are Indian, it is not very explicit, it is not very obvious.

Now I say naively because actually my profession is as a science writer.

It's unlikely... ...but you're not from a multicultural heritage, are you?