Quotes About Multiculturalism

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

I am a fairly mongrelized person - you know I've been a migrant my whole life, and it's hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally - this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.

It's impossible to be ethnically pure.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

Acts 6 reflects the challenges to maintaining a community of equals that confront any multicultural, multiethnic, and multilinguistic community.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.

With the current emphasis on multiculturalism and appreciation for the cultural diversity that exists in much of the world, and the importance of a culture's values in its self-definition, it should not surprise us that there is a movement toward accepting all cultures' values as equally valid, which is the definition of cultural relativism.

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America faces a new race that has awakened.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

Ultimately we're all moving towards a time when the races will be more and more mixed and we will all be brown to some extent.

When I started in government, I said that children who come here should take German classes before they start regular classes so they can follow what the teachers say. I said it should be possible to be a believing Muslim and a proud Austrian at the same time.

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.

It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.