Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize — because they set so little store by them — the immense riches … - Claude Lévi-Strauss

"Le cycle maudit de l'humanisme : "Jamais mieux qu'au terme des quatre derniers siècles de son histoire, l'homme occidental ne put-il comprendre qu'en s'arrogeant le droit de séparer radicalement l'humanité de l'animalité, en accordant à l'une tout ce qu'il retirait à l'autre, il ouvrait un cycle maudit, et que la même frontière, constamment reculée, servirait à écarter des hommes d'autres hommes. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Anthropologie structurale 2 Plon 1973

Kültürlerin çeşitliliği insan topluluklarının birbirinden yalıtılmasından çok, onları birleştiren ilişkilere bağlıdır.

It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication — that is, the tendency to know exactly in one point of the world what is going on in all other parts of the world. In order for a culture to be really itself and to produce something, the culture and its members must be convinced of their originality and even, to some extent, of their superiority over the others; it is only under conditions of under-communication that it can produce anything. We are now threatened with the prospect of our being only consumers, able to consume anything from any point in the world and from any culture, but of losing all originality.