Popular Culture
The cultivar Kimjongilia is a floral emblem of North Korea.
The Grateful Dead wrote the popular song "Scarlet Begonias".
Begonia Blossom Herbert is also a contemporary American artist from San Francisco.
In the 1993 American comedy Mrs. Doubtfire, a goat eats a begonia belonging to Miranda Hillard (played by Sally Field) during her son's birthday party.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)