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Edward T. Hall [1914-0] American
Rank: 102
Scientist, Anthropologist


Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space. 

Experience, Relationship

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For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
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The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. Experience
102
The information is in the people, not in your head.
103
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
104
Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
105
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. Relationship
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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
107
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
108
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
109
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
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Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
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Age affects how people experience time.
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Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
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