What is a beautiful phrase or concept from your culture that is nice to share with the world?

[AmandaYVR]

My visual representation of sharing, broadcasting to the world, heh heh...

Plus, it's abstract, and indistinct; which I always like.

Anish Kapoor, "Dismemberment", 2009, Gibbs Farm, North Auckland, New Zealand

(But it's really this. A giant horn sculpture.)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Anish+Kapoor+Dismemberment+2009+Gibbs+Farm+North+Auckland+New+Zealand&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi-1Yy74IX5AhU7kGoFHYyYA90Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=Anish+Kapoor+Dismemberment+2009+Gibbs+Farm+North+Auckland+New+Zealand&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEB4QBzoGCAAQHhAFOgYIABAeEAg6BAgAEBhQywpYywpgtwxoAHAAeACAAV6IAbwBkgEBMpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=6w7XYv6zB7ugqtsPjLGO6A0&bih=1392&biw=1737

I can't think of a phrase for myself. This statue came to mind. It's not really what I'm interested in, or going for in this question, though. But it is very Canadian.

My heritage is German and British. All totalled, those should give me lots of possibilities, but I can't think of anything right now. But I'll appreciate your answers if they are more word-based, philosophical, about culture, language, love, beauty, etc.

What does the inukshuk symbolize?

Traditionally, they were used by the Inuit in the north as directional markers. An Inukshuk in the shape of a person signifies safety, hope and friendship. These stone sculptures were also important for navigation, as a point of reference, as a marker for hunting grounds, or to denote a food cache.

(Thanks to @DermalPunch for this inspiration, in our exchange about elegance and noble beauty.) Why would a guy describe a woman as elegant as opposed to pretty or beautiful?

[LaFerrari]

Turning the most simple things into food during the worst of times such as the Irish food shortages and the Great Depression. The Irish succeeded well in that. You would enjoy watching https://youtube.com/c/GreatDepressionCooking


The Irish are focused on hard work and efforts for respect rather than being rich and wealthy with a good education, that doesn’t really gain respect with them usually unless they earned it, and not handed to them.


I see that as a great mentally that has been lost in our society, everything is just handed down from parents to their children these days.


The Irish fought along side union Americans in the civil war when they migrated here, including a family member of mine from way back…. He was killed in the war, he volunteered to fight. Shows a lot of character for someone that migrated from the worst slums of Ireland to come here and fight for the freedom of the enslaved.

[NathanDavis]

I have a funny one, and very much true... "We Mexicans are born wherever the fuck we want" our culture is one that will embrace you, no matter where you are or where from... Texas, Spain, Germany or anywhere else, not just Mexico itself...

[AmandaYVR]

That IS funny!

[NathanDavis]

the phrase was coined time ago by Chavela Vargas, who was a Mexican icon of the music, entertainment and other arts for many years... during an interview with a journalist who dared to ask if she was Mexican lmao, to which she said yes, but the journalist reminded her that she was born in Costa Rica, to which she just said what we all say now..

. “Los Mexicanos nacemos en donde nos da la chingada gana“

here she is in a photo with Frida Kahlo (which whom she might have been an item, or not... and not just great friends)

[DermalPunch]

Well, to speak on the Inuit statues. There was a bit of a problem in Canada, perhaps Ottawa, where an inuit statue was put up without consultation and it was a statue that was a bad omen or something. I mean was it so hard to ask someone?

[AmandaYVR]

Kind of like people who get Japanese tattoos but it ends up being the wrong thing!

Ariana Grande had made headlines on Tuesday when she first showed off her latest ink, two Japanese characters on the palm of her hand which she thought translated to “7 Rings” — the same name of her most recent breakup anthem. But fans quickly pointed out that Grande was missing a few characters, with the two letters actually meaning “small, charcoal grill.”

Grande embraced the mistake, joking that she was a “huge fan of tiny BBQ grills” in a since-deleted tweet.

She then apologized for the blunder (“tryna learn here“) and consulted with a Japanese-fluent friend to fix it, documenting their conversations in a series of Instagram Stories.

By Wednesday, Grande had a plan in place to return to Los Angeles tattoo artist Kane Navasard and fix the error.

“Slightly better,” she wrote on the photo. “Thanks to my tutor for helping me fix and to @kanenavasard for being a legend. And to my doctor for the [anesthetic] shots (no joke).”

Of course, Grande couldn’t leave off her note without a mention of her former tattoo’s meaning. “RIP tiny charcoal grill,” she said. “Miss you man. I actually really liked you.”

But a Japanese speaker clarifies to PEOPLE that her tattoo fix isn’t quite right, as from left to right it says “small charcoal grill” and from top to bottom it says “seven fingers.”

[DermalPunch]

Serves. Her. Right. Amazing.

[CaptainSmartass]

I take it she won't be throwing any snags on the barbie, then?

[jennifer_bloom]

Maybelline in Chinese means beauty protection bell which I think is a beautiful term.

[AmandaYVR]

Beautiful.

[Literalbillionaire17]

I don't know if this counts but if I’m leaving I always say Shalom Shalom especially if it’s with my grandma. I’m not Jewish and I don't know how we started it but we have always said that even since I was little.

[AmandaYVR]

What does it mean/symbolize?

[Literalbillionaire17]

It’s a Hebrew saying it means nothing missing, peace, etc

[Lliam]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

[clampfan101]

America is supposed to be all about freedom, but apparently most people who run it don’t fully understand that concept…

[Rania05]

'If you nothing nice to say, keep it to yourself'

Lol,. I always try to follow this phrase since the teacher in 4th grade wrote it but I found myself often sacrastic when bothered by what I should.

[exitseven]

All men are created equal.

[roy_ricky09]

Ommmm