Ruth Benedict Quotes:
Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948
Birthday: June 5
Death: September 17
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.
topic: Men, Civilization, White, Diffusion, Universality
